America has lost more than 7 million factory jobs since manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. If the model is broken, should you try to fix it, or should you scrap it and get a new one?
The political model of Western-style democracy, which grew up alongside and then within a capitalist economic model, is now broken. Exhibit No. 1 is Donald Trump, but there’s lots of other evidence too.
One-third of French voters backed Marine Le Pen, a cleaned-up, user-friendly neo-fascist, in last year’s presidential election. In last October’s German election, one-eighth of the electorate voted for Alternative for Germany, a […]
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