Taxpayer money subsidizes the looting of the Walton family. Why should one family reap billions while its workers can barely survive?
Read more...Muxh of the initial funding for COVID-19 vaccines originally arose from federally-funded research. Socialize costs, privatize profits.
Read more...CalPERS defied its board by staking a startup fund with a cool $1.5 billion without approval. And on top of that, the deal looks lame.
Read more...The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.
Read more...The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.
Read more...The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.
Read more...Rumor, as in press reports, has it that Biden plans to install uber hawk Michèle Flournoy as Secretary of Defense.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Some pundits are trying to distance themselves from their pre-election calls.
Read more...Trump is trying to put Pennsylvania in play, legally. What are the odds his case will go anywhere?
Read more...Yves here. There will be many articles trying to explain what happened to the Democrats’ blue wave. This one is close on the heels of the result, which means it reflects beliefs at or shortly after the vote, as opposed to later lines of thought. And the writers made an effort to speak to Trump […]
Read more...Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
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