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Should Billionaires Exist?
We at Democracy have tracked recent arguments around wealth taxes, but felt there’s an almost philosophical question underlying these scholarly questions. Is the goal of optimal tax policy to create revenue, to create a fair distribution of wealth across society, to enhance economic growth? And does this debate go beyond economics and funding government and into the health of our democracy…Read More
30% of Britons think Burnham would do better job than Starmer as prime minister, poll suggests – as it happened
This blog is now closed. View all our UK politics coverage hereAs Dave Burke reports for the Daily Mirror, the Reform UK MP Lee Anderson posted a picture on social media of himself and activists campaigning in the Gorton and Denton byelection – standing outside a hotel that is actually in Angela Rayner’s neigbouring Ashton-under-Lyne constituency. Rayner told the paper:…Read More
Field Guide to Falling Ill: A Conversation with Jonathan Gleason
Field Guide to Falling Ill is Jonathan Gleason’s prizewinning collection of essays on disease,medicine, and humanity. We sit down with Gleason in this interview to discuss the capacity oflanguage to express, experimental essays, HIV/AIDS, moving beyond medical establishments,the heart, and more. Tell us more about the title of Field Guide to Falling Ill. Jonathan Gleason: The title began as an…Read More
ICE: Trump’s killer Gestapo
He and his goons are also liars who should be considered enemies of the state. Source linkRead More
Hidden Foster Care as Neoliberal Family Governance
When J.D. Vance was twelve, his mother, struggling with substance abuse, sped down the highway and told him that she was going to crash the car and kill them both. When she slowed down, Vance fled, his mother was arrested, and the family became the subject of a Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation. As Vance-the-memoirist describes it, he feared foster…Read More
Why they went back to school, and what they learned
As we prepare for the spring session of the Modjeska Simkins School, we wanted to offer the testimonials of former students so that it might inspire others to sign up for this year’s course. Classes meet Mondays evenings March 2 … Continue reading → Source link www.scpronet.comRead More
Three ways YOU can help teach truth in South Carolina
George Orwell reportedly said, “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” As we approach the 250th anniversary of America’s founding by revolutionaries, we need more truth, not less. Our school is dedicated to doing just … Continue reading → Source link www.scpronet.comRead More
UK politics: Trump’s Nato claims ‘insulting and frankly appalling’, says Starmer –as it happened
President’s assertion that Nato troops were not on the front line in Afghanistan has sparked widespread angerKeir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor from returning to parliament after the resignation of a Manchester MP triggered a byelection, Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Josh Halliday report in their overnight story.In a good analysis,…Read More
Kate Baldwin Explains Why Christianity Fights for Democracy in Africa
Kate Baldwin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She is the author of the book Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in Africa. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The group of people who have an…Read More
The arc of the moral universe does not bend on its own
By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive DirectorScreengrab via Democracy Now!Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives this year amid a deliberate effort to rewrite American history and a wholesale assault on civil rights in America.It has been one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It felt cruel and grotesque that a man who represents so…Read More