Doctors Argue Plans To Remedy Surprise Medical Bills Will ‘Shred’ The Safety Net
A PR campaign presenting the consumer fraud known as surprise billing as beneficial doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
Read more...How Private Prisons Affect Sentencing
Since the introduction of private prisons, rates of incarceration have risen strongly . How much are those prisons to blame?
Read more...Money Is Still King of the Hill And We Are All the Poorer for It: A Glance Back, and Forward
A personal retrospective on money in US politics.
Read more...The Military-Industrial Jobs Scam
Military contractors have used the threat of US job cuts to extract more dough from American taxpayers….and then cut US jobs.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.
Read more...The Trump White House Is Upending Decades of Policy-Making Procedures
The Trump Administration really is making things up as it goes along.
Read more...Brexit: Can Anyone Take the Wheel From Johnson?
Johnson is committing the UK to a no deal Brexit. What could stop him?
Read more...The “Existential Battle” Is for Control of the Democratic Party
Democratic Party operatives would have voters focus on Trump, as opposed to the batttle within their party over the Sanders-led effort to implement policies that serve Americans broadly, not the top 10% .
Read more...Carmakers and California Agree on Emissions Rules
Carmakers agree to comply “voluntarily” with California’s tightened emissions standards – thus thwarting Trump plans to rollback proposed nationwide rules.
Read more...‘People are Dying’: Bernie Sanders Heads to Canada With an Insulin Caravan
Sanders puts the hot lights on the disgrace of insulin prices in the US.
Read more...As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash
Latest DeSmogBlog coverage of fracking follies: the still unprofitable industry turns to pension funds and private equity for capital.
Read more...How the Government Can Steal Your Stuff: 6 Questions About Civil Asset Forfeiture Answered
Sad but necessary, a primer on civil asset forfeiture.
Read more...Brexit: Boris Johnson’s Impossibility Theorem
No one is blinking in the Brexit staredown.
Read more...Trump Promised Massive Infrastructure Projects—Instead We’ve Gotten Nothing
Even budget hawks ought to embrace infrastructure spending, since those projects typically produce $3 of tax revenues for every $1 spent when there’s a backlog, as we clearly have in the US. So what is Trump’s excuse?
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