A satirical look at the fantasy of the “Trad Wife” lifestyle, and what gets left out when unpaid labor is rebranded. Source link blogforarizona.netRead More

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The intricate patterns of the Alhambra. The Knicks’ ability to blow a fourth-quarter lead. The sheer volume and quality of scholarship being produced by the LPE community. Some things you have to see to believe. Which is why we’ve put together the following (partial and necessarily incomplete) list of noteworthy new articles for your browsing pleasure. ** ** ** Amy…Read More

Last fall, Attorney General Jeff Jackson reached a $7 million settlement with Greystar, North Carolina’s single largest apartment landlord, forcing the company to stop using RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software to set rents. This followed an earlier settlement last April. Both are very meaningful wins for North Carolina renters for which Attorney General Jackson deserves real… The post Algorithmic Pricing and…Read More

1. The quotation marks around “assassination” in the title are not because I believe in any of the conspiracy bullshit about the attempt by Cole Tomas Allen to kill someone at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night. It’s comforting to think that our enemies are so competent that they can stage shootings with ease any time they think it…Read More

Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II, when the United States confronted a powerful adversary in Nazi Germany with designs to control not just Europe, but the…Read More

Credit: Al Habtoor Research Centre             The state of the US economy is hard to get a grip on these days , even with the statistics often pondered over by economists and journalists. The stock market is way up (although it’s mostly powered by a few large corporations), and unemployment is holding steady (although that … Read more Source link…Read More

Has Danziger been our cartoonist laureate yet? If not, why not? Anyway, to business. Recently, Gov. Phil Scott took a flying elbow off the top rope in the opinion section of The Hill, that bastion of conventional wisdom inside the Beltway. It was a complete and utter smackdown from beginning to end. And I’ll stop with the wrestling metaphors now,…Read More

Democrats in Virginia pulled off a historic victory on Tuesday: Virginians passed a ballot measure to redraw the Commonwealth’s congressional maps, netting up to four new blue seats. Donald Trump and Republicans set off this redistricting crisis with their desperate attempts to rig congressional maps in their favor ahead of the midterms — but Democrats aren’t backing down. Democrats are…Read More