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Public Health, Private Equity, and the Pandemic

September 2020September 2020 Max Fraser capitalism, debt, finance, health care, privatization

UPMC Susquehanna closed the former Sunbury Community Hospital on January 31, 2020–about six weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic reached the

Featured U.S. Politics & Society

Resisting “Big Other”: What Will It Take to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism?

July 2019August 2019 Evan Malmgren capitalism, informal economy, Labor, neoliberalism, privatization, surveillance

“Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and

Featured U.S. Politics & Society

Napoleons in Pinstripes: The Rise of the Business Mogul as Politician

May 2018August 2018 Lily Geismer capitalism, Democratic Party, elections, politics, privatization, Republican Party

The authoritarian threat when titans of business invade the political arena.

Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

Why Teachers Unions Make Such Useful Scapegoats

January 2014July 2018 Rebecca Kolins Givan collective bargaining, Democratic Party, education, health care, Labor, politics, privatization, trade unions

Photo credit: Huck/ Konopacki Labor Cartoons In the last several election cycles, it has become de rigueur for right-wing candidates