Jeffrey Sommers Journalist Profile

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Was Carter's Flawed Presidency, the Best the US Can Expect?

Jan 9, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey Sommers

Jimmy Carter’s body has been interned after a century of energetic engagement on the earth’s surface. But his legacy remains debated as observed in legions of overviews on his legacy published this past week. Some see him as an idealist lacking humanity’s foibles nonetheless necessary to properly govern people less earnest than himself.
Grappling With Genocide at the United Nations

Nov 24, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Ray Acheson |Jeffrey Sommers

Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and widening war against Lebanon provided a particularly violent and lawless back drop to this year’s five-week session of the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. The First Committee, which deliberates about and adopts resolutions on a range of weapon issues from small arms to nuclear bombs, […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
Opinion: UW-Milwaukee won't retain top status with more cuts. Wisconsin could fall behind.

Oct 14, 2024 | jsonline.com | Jeffrey Sommers

ilwaukee and Wisconsin face the prospect of losing this R1 designation for UWM, and with it, returning to the status of Iowa that possesses only a single Carnegie R1 universityJeffrey Sommers | Special to Milwaukee Journal SentinelShow Caption Hide Caption A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee interpreting program offers hands-on experience. A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee program allows students to get hands-on experience with the deaf and hard of hearing Friday, Feb.
Swing State Politics

Oct 13, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey Sommers |David S. D’Amato

It’s the final countdown for America’s Presidential race. Trump’s failed summer debate debacle is a dimmed memory, as is the sugar high of Harris’ Age of Aquarius “joy” convention. Post Chicago (and also Milwaukee where she announced her Presidency), Harris’ campaign settled into the worst parts of Obama and Clinton’s campaigns (of course the facsimile […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
How to Sustain Eastern Europe’s World-Beating Home Ownership Rates

Oct 11, 2024 | tol.org | Jeffrey Sommers |Daniel Bromfield Pop |Cosmin Marian

Progressive property taxation in the CEE region can protect these countries’ home ownership legacy while making their economies more efficient and fair. by Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop, and Cosmin MarianHousing and food. Absent them, life is short. Precarity in recent decades has put both out of reach for some. Of the two, housing is harder to supply. Yet, from Estonia to Albania, most of the former communist states in Europe boast world-beating rates of home ownership.
The Collapse of the "Vital Center" and the Return of Politics

Jul 11, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey Sommers |Cosmin Marian |Daniel Bromfield Pop

This is what politics looks like today: a president-elect in Mexico pushes big minimum wage hikes amid unsettled financial markets. In Budapest people queue to vote in local and European elections not for liberals to oppose Orban’s nationalist FIDESZ party, but for an alternative conservative party to it. In Germany the rightwing AfD swept elections along political geographic lines almost questioning whether Germany ever fully re-united in 1989.
Debt, Dictatorship, and Haiti’s Crisis: It has not Always Been This Way

Apr 22, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey Sommers

Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the streets for fear of succumbing to the same fate by attempts to remove them. The capital’s port was captured and ransacked, with famine threatening.
Haiti’s Disorder Is Due to Elite Malfeasance and US Meddling

Apr 5, 2024 | jacobin.com | Jeffrey Sommers

Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the streets for fear of succumbing to the same fate by attempts to remove them. The capital’s port was captured and ransacked, with famine threatening.
Act 10 reversed century of progress. Wisconsin Supreme Court should toss law. | Opinion

Dec 14, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Jeffrey Sommers

Wisconsin, once a paragon of New Deal values that transformed workers into a middle class, changed when a Republican legislature and governor passed Act 10 a dozen years ago, reversing a century of progress. The legislation choked wage growth for all Badger State workers, public and private sector alike. In normal labor markets workers often see pay rise above inflation in fat years, with pay held down in lean years.
Wisconsin’s Raw Deal Reversal of the New Deal: ACT 10 Labor Law. Don’t Let Your State Legislature Do This to You.

Dec 14, 2023 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey Sommers

Wisconsin, once a paragon of New Deal values that transformed workers into a middle class, changed when a Republican legislature and governor passed Act 10 a dozen years ago, reversing a century of progress. The legislation choked wage growth for all Badger State workers, public and private sector alike. In normal labor markets workers often see pay rise above inflation in fat years, with pay held down in lean years.