Matt Stoller: The Great Turn Is Beginning
Stoller’s fundraiser theme is cracks among the elites are getting serious.
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Brexit: Out of Runway
How long can Johnson keep his Brexit deal fantasy going?
Read more...Rural Hospital Closings Reach Crisis Stage, Leaving Millions Without Nearby Health Care
How rural hospital closures have serious knock-on effects.
Read more...Trump’s Latest Trade War Move Sends Oil Tanking
Oil markets see Trump’s continuing China trade threats as a downer.
Read more...Wow! Met Our First Fundraiser Goal in Record Time! Next Is More Meetups and Travel
The fundraiser is off to a great start! If you haven’t given already, please support our second goal, more meetups.
Read more...America’s Final Patriots: An Interview + Book Review of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller (Riverhead Books, 2019)
A new, “brutally researched” book on whistleblowers describes their importance and the price they often pay.
Read more...Fundraiser 2019: What We Did for You in the Past Year
Our report on what we accomplished since our last fundraiser, thanks to your support.
Read more...Fundraiser 2019: Fighting the Good Fight
Fundraiser 2019 is on! Give generously to keep us unbought and unbossed.
Read more...From 2014: R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
ive years later, Richard Smiths’s 2014 deep dive into Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, then and now of Hunter Biden fame, provides detail you won’t find anywhere else.
Read more...The Cost/Benefit Analysis of No Deal
Looking at the contours of a No Deal Brexit.
Read more...The Knock-On Consequences of the US-China Trade Tariffs on Global Value Chains
Looking at the math of the impact of tariffs on global value chains.
Read more...Links 9/28/19
How Facial Recognition Technology Is Bringing Surveillance Capitalism to Our Streets
Facial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to privacy and public space.
Read more...Why Cheaper Drugs from Canada Likely Won’t Cure What Ails US
Why importing drugs from Canada is a band-aid on a gunshot wound.
Read more...We Can’t Rely on Corporations to Reform Themselves – We Must Challenge Their Power
Corporations cross their hearts and swear that they’ll care about more than executive and director pay and stock prices.
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