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Brexit: Gaming It Out
Brexit is getting more fractious but noise does not translate into progress.
Read more...Could Climate Change Fuel the Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism?
How climate change is bad not just for health but also politics.
Read more...Wolf Richter: How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance
Health insurance costs will kill you if your medical issues don’t get you first.
Read more...After Climate-Focused 2020 Bid, Inslee Faces Indigenous Campaigners’ Demand to End All Fossil Fuel Projects in Washington
Governor Jay Inslee exposed as a climate change hypocrite.
Read more...The Failure of Higher Education: A Tale of Two Diplomas
How teachers and students have meekly accepted the strangling of education.
Read more...Trump’s Fannie/Freddie Privatization Giveaway: Why GSE Reform Is Hard
GSE reform is baack! Or not.
Read more...Documentary “Blowout” Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom from Fracking to Exports
This RNN interview reminds us that the fracking catastrophe didn’t originate under Trump: his predecessor rescinded the energy export ban.
Read more...The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf Discovers that Rentier Capitalism and Financialization Increase Inequality and Hurt Growth
Martin Wolf has a big think about what is wrong in and discovers rentier activity.
Read more...Two Horrid Wall Street Journal Stories Show What a Malefactor Amazon Has Become
The Wall Street Journal reports ghastly stories about product safety from third party sellers at Amazon, and the ugly office politics of software development
Read more...Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts
Firms that help place handpicked candidates in school leadership positions use those connections to sell other products and services.
Read more...FAA Hoist on Its Own Boeing 737 Max Petard: Multiagency Panel to Issue Report Criticizing Agency Approval Process, Call for Certification Changes
Another FAA self-inflicted wound.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich, Ending War, American-Style
The US hasn’t won a war since World War II, and even then, the Soviets deserve most of the credit. So how do we keep up appearances?
Read more...CalPERS Election Corruption: Huge and Illegally Opaque Dark Spending Against Pro-Accountability Candidate JJ Jelincic
Yet more on CalPERS election shenanigans.
Read more...CalPERS, Treasurer Fiona Ma, Board Members David Miller and Theresa Taylor, and CalPERS Employees Engage in Illegal and Dishonest Electioneering Against Candidate JJ Jelincic
More on CalPERS’ election meddling.
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