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About Lambert Strether
Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered.
The U.S. said Americans should avoid traveling to Japan, with the country under a state of emergency that has sown doubts about Tokyo’s plans to host the Olympics in less than two months.
New coronavirus infections in the U.S. rose at the slowest pace of the pandemic in the past week, a sign the nation’s vaccination campaign is cutting down on the spread of the deadly pathogen.
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