How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong

Click Here to Read: How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong: American analysts have long viewed inequality as a byproduct of technological causes. But  Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena Party has boosted workers’ income without any  technological tradeoffs by Jonathan Schlefer in Nation Magazine substack on October 6, 2026.

Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. Image: Presidencia de Guatemala.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal

Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal. U.S. troops complete their withdrawal from Iraq as Trump rejects Iran’s latest peace proposal, oil climbs past $100 a barrel, and the Treasury market closes its worst quarter since 1994 on The Nation substack on October 03, 2026.

U.S. Soldiers depart Forward Operating Base Baylough, Afghanistan, June 16, 2010, to conduct a patrol. The Soldiers are from 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. William Tremblay, U.S. Army/Released) Image: The U.S. Army.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

 

‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived.

Click Here to Read:  ‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived. Dedicated to the boy whose  lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America by Briana Ellis-Gibbs on The Guardian website on September 13, 2026.

Emmett Till in 1954 Image: Mamie Till Bradley.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tracking the Crisis: Red Sea Change

Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Red Sea Change: Trump in crisis as Houthi forces seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast, crude tops $100 a barrel and diesel tops $6, and the Fed hikes rates for the first time since 2023  on the Nation Magazine Substack on Sepember 21, 2026.

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