Good links for January 2018.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.