Why Are Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools Suspending Students Left and Right?
It’s easy to be a “Success Academy” if you have rules that allow you to force out students that you think will be harder to teach.
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Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Special Operations ‘Successes’ Around the World
To quote Andrew Bacevich: “There is no doubt that U.S. Special Operations forces are hard at it in lots of different places. It does not follow that they are thereby actually accomplishing anything meaningful.’”
Read more...Weaker Unions Correlated with More Inequality, Higher Pay for Top Earners
The decline in union power plays an important role in explaining the rise in inequality in advanced economies.
Read more...Failure of Globalization and the Fourth Estate
“Free Trade,” the banner of Globalization, has not only wrecked the world’s economy, it has left Western Democracy in shambles.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. It’s time to debunk them.
Read more...Attacks on Sanders, Progressives Falsely Depict Obama As Lefty Failure as Opposed to Neoliberal Success
A sign that the progressive cause is moving out of the wilderness and starting to rattle The Powers That Be is that the messaging apparatus is starting to attempt to demonize Sanders as a hopeless cause. And the arguments made against him and the progressive cause generally are made via bizarre analogies to the neoliberal Obama.
Read more...TPP Teeters in US Congress
More and more Republicans look to be girding their loins to fight approval of the TPP. And it’s not as if Dems are all that keen either.
Read more...Reformers Stymie Obama a Second Time on Wall Street Cronies: Progressive Pick Lisa Fairfax Nominated for SEC
The Wall Street wing of the Democratic party has taken a visible defeat with the nomination of Lisa Fairfax to the SEC.
Read more...Private Equity Firms with Traded Stock Disclose Info that Calls into Question CalSTRS’ Foot Dragging on Disclosure
Public information on Apollo, Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR’s private equity funds shows CalSTRS has no good excuses for defending secrecy on fees and costs.
Read more...5 of the Biggest Acts of Corporate Hypocrisy in America
Socialism for the rich is inherently hypocritical….but which forms of corporate truth-distortion are the most brazen?
Read more...Eric Zuesse: Europe Secretly Starts Imposing TTIP “Trade” Deal Despite the Public’s Overwhelming Opposition
The European Union is already secretly imposing provisions from the secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty, even before anyone has signed it, and even before it has been formally approved in any nation.
Read more...Adam Levitin: Fighting for the Middle Class
How the deck is stacked against the middle class, and what it takes to change that.
Read more...NY Times’ Gretchen Morgenson Exposes More Layers of Private Equity Fee Chicanery
Investors in private equity like public pension funds have no idea how much they are paying in costs and fees. That allows for excessive costs and chicanery to continue.
Read more...Jeff Connaughton: On to Iowa and New Hampshire
Former lobbyist, White House and Senate staffer Jeff Connaughton explains how Naked Capitalism had an impact after the crisis and continues to do so today.
Read more...Mark Ames: Why Finance is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Mark Ames explains why the left became stupid about finance and why that was a very costly mistake.
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