The Hungarian strongman’s electoral manipulations created a system so volatile that a modest popular swing wiped out his supermajority.
Steven Hill
Steven Hill is a U.S. journalist and author of seven books, including Raw Deal: How the Uber Economy and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers. He is currently in residence at the Berlin Social Science Center.
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Magazine
To Tame the Tech Giants, We Need to Secure Our Digital Borders
The government must force platforms like Facebook and Google to obey the terms of new, digital licenses—or get kicked out of the U.S. market.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2016, Magazine
Benefits for the Rest of Us
The growing ranks of contingent workers need a new deal.
Posted inPolitics
Democracy Deficit: Why Should Europe Integrate Further?
When European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso stood at the podium at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 12 to give his annual “State of the Union” address, few in attendance knew of the bombshell he was about to deliver. Europe has been wracked by a sovereign debt crisis – an existential battle over […]
Posted inPolitics
The Latest Act of Romania’s Drama
I’m in Bucharest, Romania speaking at a conference hosted by the European Ideas Network, which is a center-right think tank affiliated with the European People’s Party (the largest party in the European Parliament). Naturally, much of the discussion here is about the current challenges over the euro. Hundreds of people are in attendance, including several […]
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Why the U.S. and Israel Should Support the Palestinians at the United Nations Vote
Israel is missing a historic opportunity to lead a regional economic renaissance Who could have imagined even a year ago that the Arab Spring would blow a fresh wind across the Middle East, opening minds and hearts to new possibilities. Now in the next chapter of this remarkable story, the Palestinians are taking their quest […]
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The Decline Whine
The US media has a long history of clucking snidely at Europe. Recently Time magazine added to a longstanding Euro-bashing tradition with an incendiary cover that blared “The Decline and Fall of Europe,” featuring a young London rioter dressed in a hoodie and glaring like a Tolkien wraith from the red flames engulfing the cityscape […]
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Labor Insiders vs Outsiders: The Challenges of Spain’s Labor Market
In Spain, coping with Great Depression-level unemployment that has broken through the psychological 20 percent barrier is a delicate matter. Tracing the meandering policy path of the Socialist government, which began with fiscal stimulus and then morphed into austerity, reflects the challenges. One of the factors bedeviling the government’s decision-making during this time has been […]
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The Obama Problem
Paul Krugman has a good piece in the New York Times, “The Centrist Cop-Out”, in which he challenges the media for its obsession over “balance” instead of pointing out how extreme the Republican Party has become, to the point of blackmailing the country over the debt ceiling. Writes Krugman, “Some of us have long complained […]
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Dispatch from Spain: How does a country deal with 20 percent unemployment?
Recently I traveled to Spain with the intention of investigating, “How does a country deal with 20 percent unemployment?” I had been invited to give a talk at a conference in Barcelona sponsored by the Socialist and Democratic Group in the European Parliament (the equivalent of the Social Democratic Party at the E.U. level), and […]
