The Pandemic Is Us (But Now Mostly Them)
The pandemic is largely to be over in the Global North, at least among the vaccinated…or so it seems.
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Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas
A look at the current acceptance of neoliberal policies.
Read more...The Framers Would Call the United States of Today Corrupt. And They’d Be Right
The Framers sought to bad a culture of gift giving. How’s that working out?
Read more...What President Biden and His Media Chorus Revealed about Their War-Fighting Capabilities
Putin and Biden, side by side.
Read more...Supreme Court Dismisses Obamacare Challenge, Leaving Existing Health Care Insurance System in Place
United States Supreme Court upholds Obamacare in the third challenge it has heard on the legislation.
Read more...Biden Taps Lina Khan to Chair the FTC
Hours after the Senate confirmed her nomination to the FTC, Biden tapped noted Big Tech critic Lina Khan to chair the agency.
Read more...How the U.S. Lost National Healthcare
An excerpt from Kai Bird’s just released book about U.S. health care, The Outlier.
Read more...Private Inequity: NYT Examines How the Private Equity Industry Avoids Taxes
Comprehensive NYT story examines how the private equity industry games the tax system, while the hapless IRS stands on the sidelines.
Read more...Shale Oil Fraud Case Reveals Executives Ignore Their Own Engineers and Mislead Investors
Emerging shale oil fraud cases: employees warn management that they’re misleading investors but rather than changing course the employees were ignored or fired.
Read more...Space Trip: Bon Voyage Jeff!
A story in yesterday’s WSJ says space tourists fly at their own risk. But do they?
Read more...Washington Post Publisher Says Biden DOJ ‘Intensified’ Trump-Era Attacks on Press Freedom
“The egregious acts by the outgoing Trump Justice Department, and the apparent doubling down on them during the Biden administration, should alarm all Americans, regardless of political persuasion.”
Read more...Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Read more...Ranked Choice and Most-Least Voting
Ranked choice voting is getting a following in America. But how does it work in practice compared to similar-seeming systems like most-least?
Read more...Decisions Finally Coming in Long-Running Battle with Hedge Fund Titans in Kentucky Pension Case, Mayberry v. KKR
Mayberry v. KKR, centering on the alleged abuse of the clueless Kentucky Retirement Systems by Wall Street titans, may finally restart.
Read more...CalPERS Desperate Response to Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Discussions and Other Abuses Seeks to Drag Case Out as Long As Possible
CalPERS’ intelligence-insulting answer to former board member Jelincic’s transparency lawsuit says that CalPERS is just dragging things out.
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