U.S. Government’s Witness Against Assange Admits He Lied
An informant publicly recanting critically important testimony against Julian Assange seems unlikely to change the trajectory of his trial.
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How Policies Affect Beliefs and Preferences: The Example of Covid-19 Vaccination Willingness
Covid and other major political challenges show that devising policies isn’t the hard part: it’s getting the public to go along.
Read more...Amazon Arrogance Backfires, Tries to Smear Incoming FTC Chair Lina Khan as Needing to Recuse Herself Because She Knows Them Too Well
Amazon looks to be having a meltdown over new FTC chief Lina Khan. Good.
Read more...Pentagon Papers Case Fifty Years On: Some Personal Reflections
Fifty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court allowed the publication of the Pentagon Papers to proceed.
Read more...Myths, Lobbies Foster Competitive International Corporate Tax Cutting
Bad ideology, kept alive by lobbying and PR, has fueled an unproductive corporte tax race to the bottom. Is the tide finally turning?
Read more...Biden Classifies Opposition to ‘Capitalism and Corporate Globalization’ As Extremism
The definition of what extremism amounts to becomes more, erm, inclusive as our elites feel more threatened. What are the possible end games?
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: America on the Downhill Slope
Musing on how America wound up where it is.
Read more...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.
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