Trump’s Executive Order is a Backdoor Privatization of Medicare
Why Trump’s “expansion” of Medicare Advantage is an insurer boondoggle at the expense of taxpayers and patients.
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Brexit: Whither Boris?
It seems likely that Johnson will resign rather than be in office October 31 and risk being held responsible by the Brexit Party for an extension. But when would he pull that trigger?
Read more...The Self-Set Impeachment Trap
The Democrats are going about impeachment in a particularly stupid way.
Read more...America’s Final Patriots: An Interview + Book Review of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller (Riverhead Books, 2019)
A new, “brutally researched” book on whistleblowers describes their importance and the price they often pay.
Read more...From 2014: R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
ive years later, Richard Smiths’s 2014 deep dive into Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, then and now of Hunter Biden fame, provides detail you won’t find anywhere else.
Read more...Coral Reefs, Climate Change, and Mobilization
Coral reefs can be saved. So let’s mobilize to do it.
Read more...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This RNN interview reminds us that the fracking catastrophe didn’t originate under Trump: his predecessor rescinded the energy export ban.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
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