Andrew Bacevich: America on the Downhill Slope
Musing on how America wound up where it is.
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Blackout Risk And Electricity Prices Are Spiking In California
California energy tsuris are set to get worse.
Read more...Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A $50 Billion Mississippi River Diversion Plan?
Questions about Louisiana’s plans to reroute the mighty Mississppi to save its eroding coast rattle the agency spearheading them
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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