The Rev Kev: World Leaders Want You to Give to Naked Capitalism | naked capitalism
By The Rev Kev, who lives Down Under Once more it is that time of year. Kids are going back to school in America, people are returning from their August…
Kudos! Met Our Second Target! On to the Third: Continuing Expanded News Coverage | naked capitalism
Thanks to readers for their prompt and generous donations! We got off to a slow start, perhaps due to starting over the holiday weekend and more reader “back from holiday”…
Opinion | Wisconsin Republicans Try to Subvert Democracy, Again
For a little while this year, it looked as though Wisconsin voters had finally broken out of the straitjacket of minority rule in their state. The key to their freedom…
After South African Fire, Migrants Fear a Violent Backlash
Two days after escaping a roaring blaze by slithering down a curtain with his 15-month-old daughter strapped to his chest, and hours after burying two fellow Malawians who didn’t survive,…
What $50 Million Can Buy: Inside the Sleek New White House Situation Room
The White House Situation Room, the ultrasecure facility known to West Wing insiders simply as “the whizzer,” has undergone a $50 million renovation, with sophisticated communications equipment and technology to…
Opinion | Trump Is Nothing Without Republican Accomplices
The semi-loyalty of leading conservative politicians fatally weakened the immune system of French democracy. The Nazis, of course, finished it off. A half-century later, Spanish politicians responded very differently to…
Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy Is a LinkedIn Post Come to Life
Seen this way, Ramaswamy’s otherwise quixotic-seeming presidential run makes perfect sense. Whether or not it wins him elected office, running for the White House is the ultimate rise and grind,…
At G20, Biden Looks to Fill a Hole Left by Putin and Xi
President Biden is set to arrive in New Delhi on Friday for a global summit meeting where he will present the United States as an economic and strategic counterweight to…
His World Shrank in the Pandemic. So He Shrank His World.
In March 2020, Danny Cortes was already facing a crisis — he was out of work, in the middle of a divorce and serving a four-year probation sentence for selling…
‘Dumb Money’ Lampoons Wall Street Titans With a Knowing Eye
“Dumb Money” is the kind of midbudget, formula-busting, thinking-person’s movie that isn’t supposed to get made anymore, much less receive a wide, studio-backed release in theaters. It tells the bizarre…