Senators Warren, Sanders, Blumenthal, and Durbin, has asked the DHS IG to expand an investigation into misallocation of funds budgeted for repair of hurricane-damaged homes and profit-skimming in Puerto Rico
Read more...The Post Office, its Universal Service Obligation, privatization efforts, how (and possibly why) those efforts are stalled.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Last week, there were three (major) California wildfires in the news: The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California, and the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California, which are still burning, not entirely contained. Here is a map: And here is a shot of the […]
Read more...Passing through JFK is a necessary purgatory for passengers; the Cuomo plan doesn’t address many problems.
Read more...The Maine two-footers were great. Why not revive them?
Read more...Advocates exaggerate claims that privatization would reduce governments’ fiscal problems while ensuring more efficient, productive, and competitive economies by promoting private entrepreneurship, innovation, and investments.
Read more...Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
Read more...The court ruled that the city’s ban on new fossil fuel terminals within its borders did not violate the Commerce Clause, which is the main argument the oil industry has used against bans like the ones in Portland, Oregon and other cities.
Read more...Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Read more...Recapturing the lost history of the FDR administration
Read more...The EU is rethinking its policies on foreign direct investment. Recent Chinese investment into ports may impact the final rules.
Read more...What might a win in the July 1 presidential election by the charismatic, anti-neoliberal Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado mean for Mexico and the US?
Read more...Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...As Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a federal job guarantee attracts criticism, it is worth mulling India’s successful rural job guarantee program, enacted in 2005.
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