The Supreme Court on Affirmative Action: 5 Possible Outcomes

Bill Blum / Truthdig Dec 11, 2015 If onetime University of Texas aspirant Abigail Fisher prevails on all of her claims, the last tepid vestiges of race-conscious affirmative action will end at public colleges and universities throughout the land. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

VIDEO: How Black Football Players at the University of Missouri Changed the Game on Racism

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2015 The Nation magazine sports columnist Dave Zirin and Danielle Walker, leader of "Racism Lives Here" events at the University of Missouri, talk about the significance of the strike by the school’s football team that led to the ousting of President Timothy Wolfe. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

VIDEO: University of Missouri President Resigns Amid Protests Over Racial Intolerance

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2015 Tim Wolfe’s statement of resignation included a remarkable testament to the power of smart, direct-action protest. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Debt Is a Weapon for Taking Your Things Away

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 20, 2014 The treasured University of Missouri, Kansas City economics professor Michael Hudson explains to RT how debt is used "as a means of foreclosing on property and transferring" it "from the debtor to the creditor." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: I Is for Ideology

By Michael Hudson Nov 30, 2013 Ideology: A set of assumptions so appealing that one looks at their abstract logic rather than how the world actually works. (See Insanity.) Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: F Is for FIRE Sector

By Michael Hudson Sep 23, 2013 Free markets: Markets dominated by the financial and propertied classes whose objective is to secure all discretionary income for themselves, ultimately by asset stripping, leaving the economy without freedom of choice except to pay the rentier class. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: D Is for Debt

By Michael Hudson Sep 15, 2013 Dependency: the loss of choice. Establishing a world system based on foreign dependency is the aim of the Washington Consensus. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ellen Brown

BLANK Aug 25, 2013 Ellen Brown is a major public intellectual and a tireless promoter of a tried and tested solution that may represent Americans' best chance at taking their society back from predatory bankers. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: C Is for Camouflage

By Michael Hudson Aug 11, 2013 Capitalism: The term used to describe the social system based on promoting the accumulation of capital. Long used mainly as an economic invective, the term only recently has become more glorified by neoliberals, referring mainly to finance capitalism. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: Part A

By Michael Hudson Aug 9, 2013 Unlike psychological terminology -- which consists mainly of terms of invective (try to think of a desirable personality complex) -- today’s economic vocabulary is euphemistic. One rarely hears the terms "rentier" or "usury" that played so central a role in the debates of past centuries. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Eat Your Cat Food, Mrs. Robinson

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 12, 2013 The new cost-of-living index proposed in Obama's latest budget is really a means to push lower living standards on people who need Social Security, University of Missouri economist Michael Hudson says. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Secret of Modern Monetary Theory

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 20, 2013 Leaving the gold standard in 1971 meant the U.S. was free to manage its money supply to prevent deflation and "truly damaging levels of inflation." But mainstream economists, led by the free-market Chicago School, have ignored this fact, leaving the public's fate to the caprices of markets for decades. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )