Pearl River There are so many things about the response to the coronavirus crisis that remind me of the response to Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast. Mostly, that’s not a good thing, because the governmental response was horrifically bad. It was the nadir of George W. …
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The Future of the Labour Party’s Community Organizing Program
Bristol In the aftermath of the devastating loss experienced by the Labour Party in the United Kingdom recently, everything is up for grabs as politicians, parliamentarians, activists, and others sort through the rubble to rebuild. Jeremy Corbyn, who had led a resurgence in the party’s membership and pushed away from the “new” labor program …
Figuring Out Which Companies are Naughty or Nice
Quebec City Even as the Brexit landslide seemed to be building in the formerly United Kingdom, the European Union leadership was piecing together an ambitious plan to achieve climate goals by 2050. Their plan was to reach net-zero in carbon emissions at that point in a sweeping economic transition. Some countries like Poland that still …
Increase Austerity, and Welfare Becomes More Popular!
New Orleans Something very surprising, and I think very important, is happening about attitudes about welfare. Finally! Unfortunately, it’s happening in the United Kingdom, rather than in the United States, but let’s take the wins where we find them, because there are lessons there that politicians and policy makers need to heed about the limits …
Unwelcome Rallies for Trump in the UK
Cardiff President Trump’s summer disruption tour of Europe is leaving more scorched earth than the current heat wave across the United Kingdom. At NATO meetings he seems to have delivered a message to US allies to “pay up” or he was pulling out, even while signing agreements to increase military preparedness and continued pushback against …