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American fears of continued government expansion and the relative prosperity of the nation have kept the initiation of long-term, large-scale social programs at bay. America has no national family financial allowance and allows more children to remain in poverty than does any other industrialized nation. It offers unmarried mothers less help with d

Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

policies.

Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist

En cas de désastre planétaire, la souveraineté alimentaire et un minimum d’autosuffisance économique seraient des facteurs de survie pour d’innombrables populations.

Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)

Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.

Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

The argument is that if providers start going out of business or consolidating, it leaves insurers with fewer suppliers of care to their members, which increases supplier power. The authors propose that each insurer scales up payments to primary care providers, and they astutely recommend policies that minimize the risk of free ridership, which cou... See more

Steve Hardgrove • Will the destruction be creative?

if we want to abolish poverty, we need to embrace policies that foster goodwill and be suspicious of those that kindle resentment. Will the policy unite people struggling with economic insecurity, those below the poverty line and those above it? Will it drive down poverty and promote economic opportunity?

Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America

For decades, American liberalism has measured its successes in how near it could come to the social welfare system of Denmark.

Ezra Klein • Abundance

a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.[4]

Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America

The ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer has recently advocated for “an economy of abundance.”[20] Choosing abundance, at once a perspective and a legislative platform, a shift in vision and in policy design, means recognizing that this country has a profusion of resources—enough land and capital to go around—and that pretending otherwise is a farce. “I w