In my latest for @curaffairs , I show how the administrative state was once a powerful force for good in many Americans’ lives, and how it can be again: https://t.co/3VR1AeV5XA
Oregon went from building about 1,800 subsidized apartments a year pre-pandemic to nearly 5,000 last year. In Portland, all that new construction hasn’t made a dent in the affordability crisis.
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@ChrisCillizza Plenty ppl on the left—and it’s largely the left who is defending Platner, not liberals—were pointing or the problems with “always believe all women.” And many left academics were writing about it too. For example Shamus Khan.
I certainly agree, the issue is that it’s very hard to organize w/ people who are losing their minds. It was hard enough when it was just capitalist individualism + the usual personal neuroses. Now everyone is reacting to a collapsing world order, often in counterproductive ways
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would allocate an additional $70 billion for DHS and ICE.
These agencies already have a combined $100 billion in unspent funds that were part of a larger DHS spending bill.
The legislation now heads to the House.
I spoke yesterday in Paris about how socialist policy can enable us to overcome social deprivation and ecological crisis, by aligning investment and production with democratically determined objectives.
I noticed that some people assume socialism necessarily means 100% public ownership, but this is not the case. Yes, for many important reasons, we need public ownership of public services, utilities and the commanding heights, and yes we need a public finance system, industrial policy and credit guidance...
But there's no reason we cannot have private firms producing consumer goods like watches, beer, etc - the key is that they should be democratically owned and managed, by workers or communities empowered to determine the objectives of investment and production.
We know that when people have democratic control over production they are more likely to align it with social and ecological needs.
Socialism is ultimately about economic democracy: extending the principle of democracy into the realm of production. Cooperatives are an important step in this direction.
I’m currently writing a long investigative piece about the American landscaping industry, and one thing that few people grasp is the degree to which the contentious politics surrounding this industry drives fossil populism.
SUVs have launched an assault on our future.
These oversized, high-emission vehicles are choking our cities, fuelling the climate crisis, and putting all of us in danger. 🚙💨
If we don’t act soon, we’ll all be under their wheels.