by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 16, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
The Second Great Depression At least four major factors are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery. The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again. In Texas, the bars are...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 13, 2020 | • Politics
David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics David Shor lost his job at Civis Analytics after his promotion of an academic study on protests created a Twitter controversy. But the socialist data guru’s insights into U.S. politics and the 2020 election...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 13, 2020 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
There Is No Such Thing as a Conservative Workers’ Movement The “statement on a conservative future for the American labor movement,” released just before Labor Day by the fledgling think tank American Compass, opens, naturally, with a celebration of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 9, 2020 | • Politics, On Liberalism
Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was Review of Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum (Allen Lane, 2020). For Anne Applebaum, whose work on Soviet-era history is so respected it landed her the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 8, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The Case Against Trump (and why some of your friends and family no longer want to speak to you) I love this country. I always have. But the last few years in the USA have left me truly aghast. Just when I think that there are no more surprises left in American...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 7, 2020 | • Politics
No, The Government Did Not Break Up A Child Sex Trafficking Ring In Georgia Human trafficking has been having an eventful summer. In July, internet sleuths accused online retailer Wayfair of selling missing children in overpriced cabinets. In August, QAnon supporters...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 6, 2020 | • Politics, Barak Obama
How Capital Strikes Yanked Barack Obama’s Presidency to the Right Excerpt from Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It , by Tarun Banerjee, Michael Schwartz, and Kevin A. Young (Verso Books, July 2020). The Barack Obama administration...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 6, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-889 Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is Nothing bonds a group more tightly than a common enemy that is perceived as a mortal threat. To understand the corruption, chaos, and general insanity that is continuing to engulf the Trump campaign and much of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
In his last interview, Carl Sagan warned that America will be taken over by a ‘charlatan’ political leader Sagan never would have believed in a fortune tellers but dang this is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 5, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Mental health experts explain why ‘fearful’ Trump supporters are still clinging to the president – despite his many failures A looming question in today’s political climate is: Why do Donald Trump’s devotees continue to support him...
