CalPERS is bizarrely unable to control its bad impulses.
Read more...The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
Read more...A high level, if flawed, critique of democracy American style.
Read more...No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng has left abruptly. If you’ve been paying attention, this isn’t a total surprise.
Read more...An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
Read more...It ought to be stunning that the Post Office needs to be defended….
Read more...CIO Ben Meng demonstrates why CalPERS can’t be trusted….even as the giant pension is pushing legislation to be able to make loans in secret.
Read more...How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
Read more...NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
Read more...Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn’t unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.
Read more...IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
Read more...The new regime in Turkey is a form of the predator state, acting as a cookiecutter shark, feeding on its prey and not killing it outright.
Read more...Portland protests continue and judge refuse to issue a temprary restraining order against action undertaken by federal agencies.
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