Is Bloomberg Buying the DNC? If So, What Does He Plan to Do With It?
A closer look at Bloomberg’s attempted takeover of the DNC.
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New Mexico Attorney General Sues Google Over Kiddie Privacy
New Mexico AG Hector Balderas sues Google for violating children’s privacy under federal and state statutes. Don’t be evil indeed!
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: Pseudo-Events as a New Normal
Are pseudo-events the bread and circuses of the Information Age?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike to Record High, Past Financial-Crisis Peak, as Other Consumers Relish the Good Times. Why?
The concern is not for banks or investors in subprime-credit-card backed securities. But what does this bifurcation tell us about consumers?
Read more...How To Roast the Planet with Good Intentions: The Climate Equity Act
A new bill illustrates how not to tackle climate change.
Read more...Private Equity’s War to Preserve Surprise Billing
Sadly, private equity has beaten back legislation to curb surprise biling.
Read more...Why No Retired Generals Oppose America’s Forever Wars
How generals promote top-level groupthink.
Read more...To Tackle Inequality, We Need To Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
How to combat cultural beliefs that justify extreme inequality.
Read more...CalPERS’ Election Rigging: Pushing for Most Costly, Insecure Online and Phone Voting Despite Abject Failure, Why? To Help SEIU Influence Election
CalPERS remains unwilling to run clean and secure elections. One has to wonder why.
Read more...A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt
An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.
Read more...The Public’s Right to Know: HA! How Courts and Federal Agencies Stonewall on Citizen Access to Government Information
Summary of some ways the US government de facto restricts access to public information.
Read more...Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover
Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.
Read more...Progressives to Voters Skeptical of Bernie Sanders: This ‘Big Tent’ Movement Is a Winning and Practical Choice
Sen. Bernie Sanders is now being declared the new Democratic frontrunner, and progressives are reaching out to voters that remain skeptical.
Read more...Right to Repair Roundup: One Step Forward, One to the Side
A modest civilian advance in the battle over the right to repair – and a brief snippet on how the US military manages creatively to waste resources in the same realm.
Read more...Lower Income Towns in New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Sanders; Richer Towns Did the Opposite
Lower income towns in New Hampshire voted heavily for Sanders, while richer towns did the opposite.
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