Soup lines are longer, more people depend on charities to get by, and more live on the streets or have joined the burgeoning populations of Argentina’s impoverished villas.
Economics
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What does a wave of U.S. and Canadian strikes say about the future of labor?
Strikes have likewise been prominent in Canada’s southern neighbor over the last year. Teachers in West Virginia made national headlines when strikes across the state won higher wages from a Republican governor and legislature
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A 50-year farm bill can break our wasteful patterns of production and consumption
The latest five-year farm bill continues a pattern of subsidizing corporations while squeezing every last drop of use out of farm families and cropland.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In Brazil, Bolsonaro, the ‘Trump of the Tropics,’ takes office
Mr. Bolsonaro’s far-right rhetoric during the campaign has led to uncertainties about his policies as president and drawn international concern about the course he will set for the nation.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Are the U.S. and China engaged in a trade war? Depends on whom you ask.
The press in China does not make any mention of an impending “trade war”—only trade frictions.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Tax incentives for Amazon? Less than prime.
The principle of subsidiarity is poorly served in these cases—when U.S. cities and states act as if they are in an economic Cold War with one another and the “arms race” of tax incentives helps only a handful of already successful private companies.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Theresa May fumbles toward a no-deal Brexit
The British state continues to make preparations for the growing possibility of a no-deal exit, an outcome sufficiently plausible that it is spending large sums recruiting new staff and renting warehouse space for key supplies, such as E.U.-produced medicine, that may abruptly prove hard to come by.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Faith advocates see victories in new farm bill
The farm bill that passed both houses of Congress by wide margins doesn’t have money in it to protect endangered species, but it did preserve one that had been on the threatened list: bipartisanship.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
What will happen to Dorothy Day’s former church?
Whether the site will be developed into luxury apartments or low-income housing remains the subject of contentious debate.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Stephen Markley’s ‘Ohio’ is the novel you need to read to understand the Midwest today.
Stephen Markley’s new novel is an intimate, long look at a single night in New Canaan, a fictional “corn and rust” town set somewhere between central and northeast Ohio.