Cate Blanchett’s claim to be ‘middle class’ isn’t unique among the wealthy, or even the 1% she’s part of. Downplaying privilege among elites contributes to the problem of wealth inequality.
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Kenya’s university reforms are silent on government funding, which is the major source of their current financial challenges.
Despite being an unashamedly Marxist critique of the economic consensus, Vulture Capitalism has been making bestseller lists.
There are many strategies needed simultaneously to address housing affordability in Canada. The expansion of social housing supply is a particularly effective one.
The ANC tied itself in knots defending Zuma’s destructive bad behaviour in the past. Acting against him now would require it to own up to its sins.
The ACT Party’s Regulatory Standards Bill will likely meet the same opposition it has in the past. And it will be a test of the new government’s commitment to genuine regulatory standards.
Beneath the obvious policy differences between Labour and National lies a tacit consensus on fundamental economic settings. Until that changes, political choice will be constrained.
The French president has struggled to maintain the influence his country gained in Africa through colonialism.
The 2024 U.S. presidential election should be about more than Donald Trump’s legal travails. It should be a choice between democracy and the further criminalization of American politics.
Contemporary conservatives have largely been pro-free trade. That’s no longer the case. What’s fuelling the change?
Stuff cuts are just the most visible aspect of critical problems within the modern university, as a new survey of academic workers reveals.
Everyone wants to claim the economic thinker as their own.
The Scottish economist dedicated his life’s work to understanding the consequences – moral, social and political – of capitalism. Both neoliberals and leftwingers claim his legacy.
The conventional narrative on corporate tax increases relies on ‘zombie ideas’ that pander to corporate interests, harm the public interest and refuse to die.
Non-profits provide critical services and social support for communities. They also provide settings where vital forms of social capital are produced.
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, more unionised workforces from Europe to Aotearoa New Zealand fought hard to keep wages abreast with inflation. But it’s unlikely that could happen now.
The Alberta government’s report on the supposed ills of the minimum wage should be viewed within the vast, diverse spectrum of economic literature, not just standard economics.
Do the show’s fans secretly identify with the characters’ pursuit of power and pleasure?
Skewed reportage on the land debate contributes to entrenching the injustices of colonialism and apartheid.
Local people describe a purposeful past in this former mining community – and a bleak future.
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