Washington Socialist Cover, January 2018

January 2018

In this month's issue

Update Special Report: Big Developer Money and the DC Comprehensive Plan Revision Process

A Discrete Socialist

Comprehensive Plan Amendment process zigzags to developers' advantage

David Poms
Last week, the DC Office of Planning (OP) released their first update in months, and unfortunately, it goes completely off-script from the process they laid out, putting those of us who care about housing, economic, and environmental justice in a tough spot.

The Mud This Time: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe in California, Prefigured

Andy Feeney
The Los Angeles area in particular, Mike Davis writes, has experienced generations of "market-driven urbanization [that] has transgressed environmental common sense." Mud follows.

BIBLE MUSEUM: SCHOLARSHIP OR WEDGE FOR RELIGIOUS RIGHT?

Bill Mosley
Is it really possible for a museum dedicated to the scripture of a specific religion to be a pure purveyor of scholarship rather than a promoter of that religion’s point of view?

So, Let’s Talk Taxes

Steve McKevitt
Why progressive taxation? Some thoughts on what a fairer tax policy will look like.

Using Trade to Develop Nations and Protect Workers

Daniel Adkins
What would a good trade pact look like? Some ideas to consider.

How an academic economist in Northern Virginia fueled the Koch Brothers’ plan to undo democracy

Woody Woodruff
Historian Nancy MacLean brings to the AFL-CIO book talk her account of the way the Koch Bros. anti-democratic project got its intellectual underpinning.

Good Reads for January 2018

Editorial Crew
Good links for January 2018.