While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
“These slaves constituted a peculiar rand powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of war,” Abraham Lincoln stated in his second inaugural address according to Major Problems (2). That single speech succinctly explained the cause of the Civil War fought from 1861 through 1865 – slavery. Slavery and the economic, political…
Industrial capitalism has relied on cost minimization through cheap labor since the Gilded Age — it’s now moved overseas where it’s had unsafe, exploitative ramifications in developing nations. The decline in US manufacturing since the 1970s has without a doubt transformed the economic landscape to the detriment of non-college educated American workers. The 14.3 million…
Stock buybacks used to be illegal, once considered a form of stock manipulation until 1982 when the SEC passed rule 10b-18 legalizing the practice under Reagan’s failed trickle-down agenda. Over the past 10 years, companies on the S&P 500 have put $5.4 trillion into purchasing their own shares instead of investing in the economy and…
“We are only as safe as the least insured person in America,” Bernie Sanders, in one tweet, succinctly captured the individualist United States’ failed safety net amidst a coronavirus pandemic with now 10,502 cases occurring while 27 million are uninsured and the working-class grocers, delivery drivers and caretakers are on the front-lines as emergency workers…
The Federal Reserve loaned $1.5 trillion to the financial system yesterday– $500 billion into short-term bank funding — and misguided critics believe the Fed exchanging cash for securities to increase liquidity and prevent a bank run is a government “bailout” and tantamount to “corporate welfare.” However, monetary policy is completely independent of fiscal policy (the…
As supply chains struggle under global health concerns over the spread of COVD-19, many are left wondering whether an economic recession in 2020 is imminent amid the 2,000 point plummet in the Dow, supply-chain disruptions among companies sourced in China, and weakened consumer demand in sectors such as oil and the airline industry. Data on…
If the federal minimum wage had kept up with the 657% increase in inflation and 176% rise in worker productivity over the past 50 years, it would be $21.72. It peaked in 1968 at $11.18 when the cost of a four-year public university was $329.00, according to National Center for Education Statistics, a manufacturing job…
Complete climate change mitigation is an alternative forecast that overlooks carbon-reduction solutions such as sequestration and nanotechnology that will be necessary to meet a 27% increase in global energy demand, provide electricity access in developing nations where 1 billion lack electricity and face barriers to renewable energy attainment. On our current baseline trajectory, renewables will…
Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime…
Merely riding an undetectable pale speck on a universe spanning 93 billion light-years, our existence falls victim daily to our insignificant human conceits. Our psyches attempt to confront this vast, cosmic glory by assigning inordinate, life-or-death value to every inconvenience. We convince ourselves we are special, inherently cursed snowflakes, instead of humbling ourselves before the…
Your early 20s — the mental limbo of feeling like a teenager yet being treated like an adult while thrown into the unpredictable, proverbial abyss. Now imagine the added confusion and pressure of being apart Generation Z and ignoring worldly ways. Forget the “quarter-life-crisis,” 20 is the new age to ruminate over every career, life,…
By the year 2050, the UN estimates the global population will reach a staggering 9.8 billion. One of the biggest existential challenges facing this population projection will be the 70% rise of food demand. With most growth generating from developing nations, high-yield agricultural solutions based on food technology, sustainability, precision farming, and genetically engineered crops…
Anxiety is fueled by our negative perception, it quenches its ravenous appetite by telling us no before we even try, wraps it’s neurotic branches around our legs and paralyzes us. Anxiety denies us friendships before people have, it denies us opportunities before the jobs, admissions, internships, and clubs do. It denies us experiences in fear of the worst. Paralyzed, you live in fear of the worst instead of in hope of the best. Thereby creating a negative-feedback loop in which by protecting yourself from failure you protect yourself from happiness and an epic love, an epic career, and greatness. Here’s to combating your anxiety and low-self esteem.
Faux-populism may have won in 2016, but American voters approve of Bernie Sanders real populism: 58% of non-white voters, 73% of African Americans, 68% of Hispanics, 56% of women, and 62% of 18-34-year-olds. These are your ‘Bernie Bros’ media.
From the Spanish crown to the corrupt camarilla elite, Mexico’s leaders have long kept a strangle hold on middle-class growth in Mexico. It’s the stimulus in the Mexican negative feedback loop of political turmoil – widespread poverty in the 12th world’s largest economy is the issue to end all other issues. Poverty fuels organized crime,…
Over a decade after former President Felipe Calderon launched a militarized crusade against drug cartels, Mexico has recorded its highest homicide rate of 19.4 since the interior ministry began keeping records, with a staggering 29,168 murders in 2017. Despite lethal military deployment and a winning ‘kingpin-strategy’ (Nieto has neutralized 89% of drug-cartel leaders on his…
The Third Reich didn’t begin with supporters of a nationalist demagogue bombing places of worship, killing worshiping Jewish people, vandalizing Jewish property, targeting political opponents, running opponents over with a car, violently attacking ethnic minorities on trains and shooting them in grocery stores, it rose in prominence through hateful rhetoric. These acts of violence conducted…
No one is born knowing how to solve differential equations. A baby isn’t stupid for not knowing how to walk. Skill, it turns out, is just cultivated practice. Yet much our generation’s collective psyche – which heralds apathy and laziness – would have you believe if you’re not born with it, you should give up…
Born on the brink of a century, Generation Z is more “anxious, distrustful and downright miserable” than previous generations. We grew up through the 9/11 era, too young to understand the threat of foreign and domestic terror we’d live under, the Orwellian era of “Big Brother” we were being raised in, the adapting to catastrophic climate…
The extremist side of child-drugging internment camps, Obama effigies, Roy Moore, sexual assault, and mocking the disabled doesn’t care about civility; what they want is compulsory compliance, and dissent silenced in their administration’s persistent crimes against humanity. There is something seriously wrong with a nation showing more concern for wealthy operatives of administration rampant with human rights violations being kicked…
Declaring that children inhumanely separated from their asylum-seeking parents “are not innocent” is alarmingly on nazi, authoritarian levels, not on par with U.S. democratic values or the presidency. We are living through the second coming of Hitler with the Trump administration sanctioning state-violence against immigrants by planning military concentration camps for children, (unlawfully) separating migrant…
A 7-year-old asylee girl being locked up by ICE for four months at a Chicago jail has become America’s heralded “rule of law.” With the new Supreme Court ruling stating that immigrants, even permanent residents, and asylees, can be held indefinitely, internment camps have become the law of the land. As if the violation of…
Since 2012 there have been 1,624 mass shootings in the U.S. We’re responsible for 31% of global mass shootings despite being 5% of the population, but guns are the only aspect of society we can’t seem to regulate. Since 1996, 167 of mass shooters’ weapons were obtained legally (49 were obtained illegally.) Somehow keeping guns out…
Behind every self-made story of success was not an individual with grandiose, insurmountable confidence, but rather a need greater than their fears. It is not the absence of qualms which led Joan of Arc to a French victory, or Malala Yousafzai to face off death for women’s education, but rather the belief that something was…
Why are people with the same economic interests so divided? It’s not “economic anxiety”; a vote in Iowa is the equivalent of 5 California votes. The answer is grounded in American history spanning back 300 years when racial animosity was harnessed by elite landowners to destroy class solidarity and prevent rebellions. Divided, those with the…
“Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” As if it was possible to hit a new low, Donald Trump has managed it with a series of brazenly racist comments bypassing previous dog-whistles. In a meeting this past Thursday, as confirmed by Sen. Durbin and Sen. Graham, he expressed the desire…
The Trump administration has expressed a desire to kick out 800,000 young, tax-paying professionals, army members, and college students with a 91% employment rate and no felonies or misdemeanors by rescinding DACA, to fulfill a racist utopia. To kick out young adults who had no jurisdiction over coming here. While ignoring the facts: DACA has…
Nearing 2018, Clinton loyalists have taken it upon themselves to slander the most liked politician in America (who stands for the most statistically favorable issues.) Choosing to rehash the June 2016 primaries with slanderous narratives about Sanders while “Queen Hillary” drinks chardonnay in the woods, goes on a book blame tour, and turns down the…
Time and time again, history has proven our economy to be better under democratic presidents and, thus Keynesian economic policy. It’s no mystery as to why republican Congresses have been responsible for the last four major economic crisis in the: 1930s, 1970s, 2001, and 2008. Supply-side economics simply doesn’t work in non-Stagflation conditions. As it…
The politics of fear and hate has manipulated many Americans into feeling like the discriminated class because of perceived systemic ” reverse racism” — an ideology which has coincidentally proliferated since the civil-rights movement. White-Americans began feeling oppressed when African-Americans gained equal rights with the Brown v. Board ruling, Kennedy’s 1961 Executive Order, the Civil…
The democratic party has been completely decimated. Democrats have moved too far right and suffered tremendous losses because of it. Sixty-nine, House seats gone, 13 Senate seats gone, and a White House gone. Nine-hundred-and-ten seats total gone under 8 years of a Democrat-controlled White House, handing over complete legislative power to the Tsar in chief….
It’s time to stop putting political ideology over the welfare of the country. In the world-power that is the United States, medical expenses have long been the number one cause of bankruptcy, with 78% of filers already having health-insurance. It should be considered a serious issue when inhabitants of the wealthiest country have to choose…
“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.” – Donald J. Trump. Truer words have never been spoken by Trump. If you thought the 2000 Al Gore loss was unfair, well wait ‘till you hear how much our losing 2016 candidate won the popular by – 2.9 million votes. In fact, with our current…
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