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The Fight for Net Neutrality Isn’t Over
The FCC voted Friday to overturn net neutrality, RNN interviews Craig Aaron about next steps to secure a free and open internet.
Read more...The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
Read more...Incoming Board Member Margaret Brown Criticizes CalPERS’ Plan to Hurt Beneficiaries by Hiring Unnecessary, High-Priced Private Equity Middlemen; CalPERS Violates Open Meeting Rules by Advancing Plan in Secret
Incoming CalPERS board member Margaret Brown dishes out some straight talk on where the giant pension fund needs to shape up.
Read more...The Crisis Ahead: The U.S. Is No Country for Older Men and Women
Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...LEAKED: Head Of FCC Mocks Impending Destruction Of The Internet
Ajit Pai, the head of the FCC, shows his true colors. Not a pretty sight.
Read more...How the Radical Right Takeover in Brazil Has Parallels With Trumpism
The hard right is running the country without being elected after Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment last year. It has surprising support among the new lower-middle class.
Read more...DNC’s Unity Commission Further Dividing the Party
It should come as no surprise that “unity” in the Democratic Party means purging dissidents.
Read more...Republicans Plan to Cut Food Stamps as Homelessness Rises in the US
Republicans want to take food out of children’s (and adults’) mouths by cutting food stamps. One likely result is an increase in homelessness.
Read more...Daniel Ellsberg: U.S. Military Planned Nuclear First Strike On Every City In Russia and China … and Gave Many Low-Level Field Commanders the Power to Push the Button
Daniel Ellsberg reveals that the authority to launch nuclear first strikes has long been widely distributed. So who has that authority now?
Read more...Eastern Europe Showed How Neoliberalism Produces Reactionary Populism, Like Trump
Trump’s antecedents in Eastern Europe show how widening inequality and failed economic promises pave the way for reactionary politics.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Deficit Talk Is a Trap. Will Democrats Fall Into It?
The Democrats would join the Republicans in using deficits to justify cutting Medicare, Social Security, and other services. Don’t let them.
Read more...House Members Tee Up Bipartisan Bill to Kill CFPB Payday Lending Rule
Bipartisan support emerges for overturn of CFPB’s payday lending rule; will this prove to be another Cordray fail?
Read more...Tax Cuts, Wages and Salaries: Will Lower Taxes and Profit Repatriation Help Workers?
Debunking some of the claims of tax “reform” proponents, like that giving companies a tax break to repatriate profits will create jobs.
Read more...GOP Tax Bill is Even Worse Than We Think
There’s ugly, and then there’s the GOP’s tax bill.
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