Month: August 2017
The Washington Post: What draws Americans to anarchy? It’s more than just smashing windows.
Thursday, Aug 10, 2017 from The Daily on RadioPublic
Negative Piety – American Affairs Journal
NYTimes: Donald Trump Is the Godfather of a Democratic Renaissance
NYTimes: Trump’s Threat to North Korea Was Improvised
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart from NY Times
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart from NY Times
AUG. 7, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?_r=0
“Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away. It feels inevitable.
But it’s not.
A well-known team of inequality researchers — Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — has been getting some attention recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality.”