LA School Board Ready to Rumble Over Charter Schools
The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
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Nomi Prins: Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King of America
A summary of the many reasons to view Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with contempt.
Read more...CalPERS’ Three Card Monte: Makes Unheard of Benchmark Change to Hide Expected Poor Private Equity Performance to Help Staff at Expense of Beneficiaries, California Taxpayers
Yet again, CalPERS is trying to use optics and dodgy reporting to cover up for real problems.
Read more...Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta
How the Charter of the Forest set forth the idea of the commons and managed to survive for over 750 years despite being under attack.
Read more...War Making in the Age of the Imperial Presidency: War Without War Powers (the Not-So-New American Way)
WWII is the last time Congress declared war; brief history of how it has ceded responsibility for committing to war making to the President.
Read more...New EPA Lawsuit Policy Advances Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda
Trump deregulatory agenda advances, via agency decisions, and a new EPA lawsuit policy to stymie regulation by litigation.
Read more...Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges
The latest chapter in the efforts to treat activists as criminals.
Read more...Illicit Financial Outflows from Developing Countries Grow
New GIF report shows that illicit financial outflows (IFFs) from developing countries, already at alarming levels, continue to grow rapidly.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Resistance, the #Resistance and Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein epitomized the Democratic party elite. And there is remarkably little willingness to acknowledge that fact.
Read more...40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
Read more...An Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics
A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.
Read more...If You Look Behind Neoliberal Economists, You’ll Discover the Rich: How Economic Theories Serve Big Business
The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business.
Read more...How Many Hurricanes Must It Take?
Some relatively low-cost measures can reduce the toll of hurricanes….but do they go far enough?
Read more...Ilargi: Is Capitalism Dead or Merely Dying?
None other than New Zealand’s prime minister has issued a blistering critique of capitalism. Can it be saved from itself?
Read more...Impossible to Compete with Unintentional Self-Parody: Trump and Opioids
On the corporate/regulatory nexus of the opioid crisis.
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