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Steven Hill
Corona-fied: Employers Spying on Remote Workers in Their Homes
24 Sep 2020
The future of work is here, ushered in by a global pandemic. But is it turning employment into a Worker’s Paradise of working at home? Or more of a Big Brother panopticon?
Sonali Kolhatkar
Trump’s ‘Plan’ Is Simply to Make the Virus and Its Casualties Disappear
17 Jul 2020
America’s rightward march culminating in Trump’s presidency has brought us to this moment where we are dying from a virus that other nations have managed to control.
Marshall Auerback
We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Way
30 Jun 2020
Reconstructing our tax system is an integral part of future national industrial policy as we restart the economy.
Justin Podur
Policing Is Irrelevant for Public Safety—Here Are Some Alternatives That Are Proven to Work
18 Jun 2020
Society doesn’t need a large group with a license to kill.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
‘German Question’ Back on Centre Stage
08 Jun 2020
This recap is useful to put in perspective the reports last week that President Trump has approved a plan to withdraw roughly a third of the US troops stationed in Germany — by 9,500 from the 34,500…
Richard D. Wolff
Why the Neoliberal Agenda Is a Failure at Fighting Coronavirus
31 May 2020
Millions are sick and many thousands dead because of governments’ delayed and inadequate compensations for private capitalism’s failures to prepare for or cope with the virus.
Marshall Auerback
How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Euro
19 May 2020
In the absence of an agreed set of rules for all the countries in the eurozone, the single-currency union cannot be sustained, and, as the EU’s biggest creditor, Germany stands to lose the most from…
Amey Tirodkar
COVID-19: After Longer Monsoons, Grape and Pomegranate Growers Hit Again by Lockdown
27 Apr 2020
“People are selling fruits of international quality in their local, village markets at throwaway prices.”
Sonali Kolhatkar
Can Democracy Survive the Coronavirus?
16 Apr 2020
A crisis such as the one we are facing demands decisive action tempered with an abundance of caution about infringements of people’s rights.
Subin Dennis
COVID-19 Crisis Brings to Light the Need for a Much Stronger Public Sector
12 Apr 2020
The situation is such that the public sector, long maligned by neoliberal economists and weakened by governments beholden to neoliberalism, is playing a major role in the fight against coronavirus.