CalPERS, in a desperate-looking defense of its private equity outsourcing scheme, scores an own goal.
Read more...Why the self-styled reformist government in Italy is already looking like a paper tiger.
Read more...The Democratic party continues to wage full scale war against progressives…..how’s that going?
Read more...Why the current fights over money, banking, and Modern Monetary Theory look like new ways to achieve bad neoliberal ends.
Read more...The OCC found lots of bad bank conduct in retail-land, but refuses to say anything about who is cheating and what they are up to.
Read more...Senators seek information on testing protocols for self-driving cars; mandatory arbitration for further lawsuits involving such vehicles looms as a threat.
Read more...Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual lynchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean.
Read more...Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...Markets wail and gnash their teeth as normalization of Italian yields sets in.
Read more...Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...Drug company settlements with the Feds, which never were very tough to begin with, are also becoming less frequent.
Read more...How desegregation led to a concerted attack on public education.
Read more...Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
Read more...“Progressive” Democrats back “Blue Lives Matter,” an effort designed to undermine Black Lives Matter.
Read more...Congress has failed to use Congressional Review Act procedures to scupper the payday lending rule. Pending CFPB and court challenges may still doom the measure.
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