Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
Read more...Open thread on the debates.
Read more...Debate terrain, the role of the press, candidate form in previous debates, and the role of the press
Read more...Judges who are unduly deferential to corporate secrecy demands are literally killing Americans.
Read more...A former insider explains why more transparnecy won’t solve bad health care pricing practices.
Read more...One more book to read!
Read more...Lawernce Wilkerson offers another dose of his pithy commentary on US policy versus Iran.
Read more...Some urban public schools, like the ones in St. Louis, are about to regain substantial local control after budget crises made them wards of the state (government). Will these cities be able to take advantage of this opportunity?
Read more...There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.
Read more...While the press increasingly covers America’s suicide crisis, Trump has pointedly ignored it even though it afflicts a large chunk of his base. Maybe that ‘s because he’d have to abandon policies that have made matters worse for undereducated rural whites.
Read more...Boeing seems determined to make its bad situation worse.
Read more...Minimum wage increases….another nice thing the Democrats don’t really stand for.
Read more...CalPERS is acting awfully guilty.
Read more...Queensland gives Indian mining giant Adani go-ahead for massive coal mine, ignoring environmental and climate change concerns.
Read more...Trump administration soon to allow massive trains to transport LNG in unit trains 100 cars long and for the express purpose of moving LNG to export facilities – with scant regard for safety consequences.
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