From Monthly Review, Robert McChesney and John Bellamy Foster on Capitalism, the Absurd System: A view from the United States. From Slate, a special series on The United States of Inequality: Timothy Noah on the Great Divergence, the most profound change in American society in your lifetime. The air-conditioned Puritan: Why Americans, and those who are employed to write about them, cannot enjoy holidays. Thomas Geoghegan on America's misguided culture of overwork: Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life — how did we get it so wrong? An excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life by Thomas Geoghegan (and more and more). Every hotel is now another Motel 6: Whatever happened to America’s “service-based” economy? Gone the way of relaxing airplane flights. How DARPA plans to reinvent U.S. manufacturing: DoD research wing wants to make everything from tanks to bombers in "fabs". We have factories sitting idle for lack of workers — low capacity utilization — while at the same time we have workers sitting idle for lack of factories — high unemployment: This is a fucking disaster. Why are Americans passive as millions lose their homes, their jobs, their families, their hopes of justice, and the American dream? A review of Fubarnomics: A Lighthearted, Serious Look at America's Economic Ills by Robert Wright.
