Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
The widespread popular upheaval known as the “Arab Spring” ended one decade ago this year. Tunisia, whose Jasmine Revolution inspired many other demonstrations in 2011, is the only country to participate that still has an intact democracy. But even Tunisia now slouches back toward authoritarianism.
The Federal Reserve’s response to inflation is bad for workers — but it doesn’t need to be.
Beneath the strings and sequins, the Sound of Philadelphia was the backing track to the economic crisis that hit black America in the 1970s.
Venti cappuccino in one hand and a ballot in the other, the Starbucks organizing drive is on a roll.
As standards of living fall at the bottom and rise at the top, the only thing to do is watch TV about the trivial problems of the phenomenally rich.
Canada’s health system is both more efficient and more equitable than its US counterpart. But its achievements have been undermined by years of government underinvestment, leading to the growth of outsourcing to private clinics.
How “thinking like an economist” has thwarted progress in America.
Moderates claim that Biden’s BBB failed because it simply “went too far.” The truth is that even if it had passed, it would have excluded scores of working families.
What’s sitting on the nightstand of the legendary Greek economist?
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, had a mandate for change. He used it to build a police state and buy coin.
Taiwan leads the world in the production of semiconductor material, the basis of the microchips found in everything from cell phones to medical equipment. Washington and Beijing aren’t happy about it.
For decades, American governments that were far from socialist embraced extensive use of price controls during times of inflation.
The paper of record has had some amazing headline edits in recent years. Here’s a selection.
Foodways dependent on factory farming and global monocultural agriculture might be cheap in the short term, but we could pay heavily in the future.
How America got high on the crypto bubble — and lost it all.
The collapse of the Soviet bloc led to a flowering of utopian thinking among our best and brightest.
