How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
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Jared Holst: Rolling with the Holmies
Bad enough that Elizabeth Holmes could conceivably wriggle out of a conviction. Even if she loses. we’ll have to endure her “Holmies”.
Read more...NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...CalPERS Devises “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” Gamble for Long-Term Care Policyholders in Settlement
Why the proposed CalPERS long-term care insurance settlement has the look and feel of a con job.
Read more...Law Review Article Describes Private Equity as Bargaining Failure, Indictment of Law and Economics Fetishization of Contracts
An important new paper puts another big chink in private equity’s armor.
Read more...US Urged to End Drone Strikes After Pentagon Says Killing 10 Afghan Civilians Was ‘Horrible Mistake’
“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
Read more...Sports Desk: Top College Athletes Strike Endorsement Deals; Meanwhile, the NCAA Seeks to Influence Pending Federal Legislation
The NCAA has changed its rules so that student-athletes can profit from commercial endorsement deals that use their names, images, and likenesses.
Read more...Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic
In the midst of the pandemic, more than half of U.S. states have passed legislation taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases.
Read more...CalPERS’ Long-Term Care Fiasco: Private Burial to Hide Malfeasance, Failure to Implement Legislation
A key fact in CalPERS’ long-term care debacle: the giant fund flagrantly violated the statute govening this progam.
Read more...EPA Takes Steps to Block Pebble Mine on Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Thus Protecting World’s Largest Sockeye Salmon Run
Biden’s EPA yesterday moved to take steps to block the controversial Pebble Mine, which threatens the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
Read more...Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
Read more...CalPERS Election Dirty Tricks: Hit Piece Depicts Board Member Margaret Brown as Safety Harrasser
The Cost of Corporate America: Checking Your Conscience at the Door
Reflections on the moral cost of being a corporate citizen.
Read more...‘Catastrophic Injustice’: Judge OKs Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan Shielding Sacklers
Tens of thousands dead and the Sacklers get to ride away with their Purdue Pharma loot.
Read more...Michael Hudson v. George Soros on China’s Rejection of “Market” Capitalism
Soros has a hissy over China’s Xi no longer wanting to play nicely with foreign investors.
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