Former Health Insurance Executive Debunks Trump Attacks on Single Payer
Even with health care polling as the top issue with voters, Trump is one of the loudest, but far from the only, politician out to demonize single payer.
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CSU Council Calls for Investigation of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Hiring
More proof that the scandal involving CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations are not going away any time soon.
Read more...Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
Read more...Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
One of the reasons little has changed in economics despite the financial criss showing it to be deeply flawed is the power of the “top five” journals, which show both inbreeding and clientelism.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Pathology, Khashoggi, Capitalism & Climate Change
Does capitalism breed pathology?
Read more...Mark Ames: ShamiWitness: When Bellingcat and Neocons Collaborated With The Most Influential ISIS Propagandist On Twitter
But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...Civilized Societies Don’t Call It Censorship, but Copyright
Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Right to Repair Redux: The Economist Gets with the Program, While Alas, Apple Continues to Lag
Latest updates on the right to repair, discussing crucial skirmishes in the ongoing war on waste. The Economist recognizes the important issue, and US DHS supports Apple’s spurious, anti-repair claims.
Read more...How Private Equity Bankrupted Seven Major Grocery Chains for Fun and Profit
Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
Read more...Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge
This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: The Democrats’ Globalization Dilemma
It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Read more...Italy’s Debt Crisis Intensifies
Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.
Read more...Trump and Jamal Khashoggi— Saudi Arabia Has Been Bribing the US with Arms Sales for Years
An effort to put l’affaire Khashoggi in the context of the US-Saudi relationship.
Read more...Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...JFK Sucks, and Cuomo Plan Won’t Fix It
Passing through JFK is a necessary purgatory for passengers; the Cuomo plan doesn’t address many problems.
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