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‘Invisible War’ director: Reporting rape in U.S. military often worse than the crime itself
Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick on Monday decried the epidemic of rape and sexual assault in the military, noting that women were systematically discouraged from reporting sexual crimes. “According to the Department of Defense’s own estimates, more than 19,000 men and women are sexually assaulted each year in the U.S.…
Krugman explains the gradual march to economic crisis
Thursday on PBS Newshour, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explained the relevance of Hyman Minsky’s theory on the current economic crisis. “One of his arguments was exactly that you have, you have a depression, you have a bad scene and everybody gets cautious and that caution gives you several decades…
Harvard professor on American society: Everything is up for sale
Harvard University professor Michael Sandel on Monday lamented that almost every aspect of life in the United States was being “sold off to the highest bidder.” “A market economy is a tool, a valuable and effective tool, for organizing productive activity,” he said on PBS Newshour. “But a market society…
New Hampshire lawmaker: We’re in a civil war
New Hampshire Rep. Jacqueline Cali-Pitts (D) on Thursday lamented the partisanship in the state’s legislature. “In New Hampshire I believe we are in a civil war,” she told PBS Newshour. “And we are all brothers, and we are fighting each other needlessly. It never used to be this way and…
Economist worries ’20 or 30 billionaires control everything’ in the automated future
Paul Solman of PBS Newshour recently went to a conference run by a California think tank called Singularity University to learn the future of human workers. Solman noted that as far back as the Roman empire, people had worried about being displaced by machines. Emperor Vespasian, who built the Coliseum,…
IMF chief: Dollar status in doubt if debt crisis persists
WASHINGTON — IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned Thursday that failure to resolve the US debt crisis would likely raise “doubts” about the dollar’s status as the world’s prime reserve currency. “It would probably entail a decline of the dollar relative to other currencies, and probably doubts in the mind of…
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