debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
Conservative populism is flourishing in America as rapid change and media hysteria cultivate the politics of fear. As must now be blindingly obvious to anyone following the international news, American politics is not like Western European politics. In the United States, popular outrage does not turn rapidly into responsive public policy. Governments do not move [...]
Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public’s business, and to sow distrust among the population. Imagine further that the plotters infiltrate Congress and state governments, reshape their districts to give them disproportionate influence in Washington, and use the media to spread [...]
Seems like only yesterday conservative nabobs of negativity predicted America’s ballooning budget deficit would generate soaring inflation and crippling costs of additional federal borrowing. Remember Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States? Recall the intense worry about investors’ confidence in government bonds — America’s IOUs? Hmmm. Last week ten-year yields on U.S. Treasuries closed at 1.83 [...]
Now at least I know what the European Union is all about. The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso himself has told us that “we are the village green preservation society”. He was, of course, quoting from the Kinks’ hit of that name. The song also asks God to save Donald Duck and [...]
I have always liked Robert Reich’s Video blogs and I thought this one too was worth reposting… [vsw id="_7EwF_DodUk" source="youtube" width="425" height="344" autoplay="no"]
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