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Adam Curtis: “Big Tech and Big Data have been completely useless in this crisis” The film-maker’s new series  Can’t Get You Out of My Head explores why the age of individualism has left us uncertain, anxious and distrustful.  How should we understand the silencing of the modern mind? No ideology or tradition of thought has emerged to contest the social and political arrangements that define the democracies of the north Atlantic. Having abandoned statist commitments and witnessed the collapse of communist regimes in 1989, progressives look in vain for a politics beyond the defen...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is not generally the case that populist movements fall apart when their charismatic founder disappears. But Donald Trump might indeed be irreplaceable. Trumpism as a movement and ideology may not vanish, but it is unlikely to be a dominant force in U.S. politics going forward.

With vaccinations underway and the Biden administration about to assume power, attention will soon return to an assessment of the true damage that Covid-19 has wreaked on the American economy. At this moment, it’s important to take stock of the various rescue measures that have been extended by the federal government and consider how they should be amended in the future. Above and beyond the $900 billion stimulus recently signed by President Trump, over the next two to four years it is likely that between $5 to $10 trillion dollars of taxpayer money, in the form of taxpayer-backed loans and...

Labour's Brexit conundrum There is a small but vocal pro-Brexit voice on the left in the UK. DW examines what it is saying and whether it will impact the opposition's voting position when — or if — a deal with Brussels is struck. Not all of Britain's Labour Party is against Brexit If a deal between London and Brussels is agreed this weekend, it still has to pass the British Parliament. This makes Labour's position potentially crucial if sufficient numbers of Tory MPs vote against it. While unlikely, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will no doubt still be running the numbers. Britain's post-...

Taxpayers swrakt with the tax code. we have democratic congressman jerry nadler, maddie dougler from americans for tax reform, ne neera tanden and david k. johnston, author of "the fine print: how big companies use plain english to rob you blind." that is a great title. ? thank you. so i guess to set this up, we have a graph here i want to show. we said in the intro that more built-in protections for the wealthy. this kind of illustrates it. what this shows are basically the cost of tax expenditures, sort of the loopholes and deductions you hear about, the tuition tax credit, child care tax cr...