By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, August 17, 2011
This article is based on the author’s recent visit to Spain, conducting interviews and research into the impacts of the economic crisis. He witnessed the economic strain, but also the …
By Steven Hill, Guardian, August 13, 2011
Few countries need a reality check as much as Britain. From leading Europe into the disaster of the Iraq war to killing off financial reform, the UK has been more destructive …
By Steven Hill, Al Jazeera, August 12, 2011
The US economy is reeling in the aftermath of poor decision making, and structural weaknesses that have led to massive wasting of money and resources in three critical areas: military spending, health care …
By Steven Hill, Forbes.com, August 2, 2011
The U.S. massively wastes money and resources in three critical areas: military spending, health care and energy/transportation.
The first act of the Debt Deiling Drama is over for now, with all the pundits …
By Steven Hill, The Nation, July 20, 2011
When you stroll around Athens or many other parts of Greece, you see gangs of feral yet endearing cats living off people’s handouts, apparently never wondering what would happen if their …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, July 18, 2011
To understand the present and future, sometimes it’s helpful to revisit the past. In the case of Europe, it is instructive to consider the young United States of America in …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, June 7, 2011
The role of political parties in a representative democracy is a complicated subject that has been analyzed for years by legions of scholars who usually have the benefit of hindsight. Yet …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, May 17, 2011
Since World War II, it is plain to see that a high degree of convergence has occurred all over the world around the institutions and practices of political democracy and …
By Steven Hill, Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2011
Having four separate agencies controlling finance and taxes, and three separate entities covering education, seems like overkill. And do we really need a lieutenant governor?
Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed …
Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, April 27, 2011
The U.S. massively wastes money on defence spending, health care, energy/transportation, and income disequilibrium.
The Battle of the Budget Deficit has become centre stage in the United States and will dominate for …
By Steven Hill, In These Times, April 6, 2011
In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said that progressives are “fucking retarded.” Lately I’ve begun to think he was correct–though not for the same reasons …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, March 22, 2011
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, …
By Steven Hill, Sacramento Bee, March 13, 2011
Many solutions have been proposed to the political and economic crises of our Golden State, with Gov. Jerry Brown calling for a June election to deal with the state budget. But the …
By Steven Hill, The Globalist, March 7, 2011
Both the European and American ways are deeply rooted in old traditions — even in different branches of Christianity. These forces continue to shape attitudes across the Atlantic. Nowhere are these …
By Steven Hill, Huffington Post, March 4, 2011
Dear Senator Feinstein,
Thank you for your response* to my letter, but I completely disagree with your position. The filibuster is anti-majoritarian, as is the US Senate itself. Senator Feinstein, you …
By Steven Hill, International Politik (IP), Berlin, Germany, March/April 2011
Germany has evolved a social capitalism which has proven to be more stable and efficient than America’s Wall Street capitalism, not to mention more ecologically sustainable. Shrewd governmental policies, smart …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, February 24, 2011
Paul Krugman recently penned a 6000 word essay for New York Times Magazine provocatively titled “Can Europe Be Saved?” (January 16, 2011) Coming from anyone else than a Nobel Prize …
By Steven Hill, New York Times, “Room for Debate,” February 17, 2011
There is great worry in many quarters that elections in Egypt could result in a polarized government, or even an Islamist takeover. But this need not happen …
By Steven Hill, New York Daily News, January 30, 2011 (also published in The Guardian)
For all the outrage over the Tucson massacre, everyone knows that sentiment will not translate into common sense gun control laws. Even President …
By Steven Hill, Project Syndicate distribution, January 27, 2011 (published by The Guardian, Korea Herald, Japan Times, Toronto Star, Times of India, Burma Digest, Egypt Daily News, Macau Daily Times, Kiev Day and others)
WASHINGTON, DC – During the state …
