Working Life

The catastrophic failure to shrink global inequality has given COVID-19 the perfect breeding ground: tens of millions of people are at risk of hunger, extreme poverty, sickness and death because, overwhelmingly, most countries do not spend enough on public healthcare, and they have weak social safety nets and poor labor rights. Now, this is a […]

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As we enter into the final three weeks of the election, I’m updating my first set of predictions and musings—updates are partly adding new information (for example, actual turnout so far and a lot more on the Senate seats) and some new thoughts. Very little of the below, in its basics, has changed. I will […]

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The last name “Hoover” is, if I can use this term, a brand name in conservative circles. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the U.S. who served during the Great Depression, taking office in 1929 the year the stock market crashed—an apt historical reference for today perhaps since the economic implosion we are living […]

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