Dillon Tatum writes for Salon: “Harvard professor Niall Ferguson raised more than a few eyebrows last week after connecting John Maynard Keynes’ sexuality with contemporary economic woes. After a speech in California, he stated: ‘Keynes was a homosexual…
Nona Willis-Aronowitz writes for Salon: “The economy is personal. It colors our decisions about everything: when to have kids, what city to move to, who to vote for, who to sleep with. And nobody knows this better than the biggest generation in history:…
Pete Kasperowicz writes for The Hill: “Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to ‘transactional sex,’ where sex is exchanged for goods women need to…
Joe Weisenthal writes for Business Insider: “It’s been a very bad week for the austerity movement. Austerity has been discredited as a path to economic prosperity for awhile. But a real breakthrough came last week, when a paper written by a graduate stud…
Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: “F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won’t blame fear, per se. Instea…