Why Trump ‘s narrowly nationalistic trade agenda, combined with his nostalgia for a 1950s style economy, will undermine U.S. economic prosperity and U.S. global hegemony.
Read more...Is the bell finally tolling for Theresa May?
Read more...The FAA is a big casualty of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Read more...CO2 levels have crossed a threshold that ought to be causing alarms, yet the finding was just another news story. What can be done to cut through the climage complacency?
Read more...Contrary to what the NYT asserts, taxi drivers who can get competent legal advice might find bankruptcy allows them to escape onerous medallion loan burdens – and keep their medallions.
Read more...Trump budget proposal incorporates an attack on Social Security, advocating a switch to the chained Consumer Price Index (CPI) to index the federal definition of poverty, a step that would result in lower benefits.
Read more...After the failure and abuses of privatization became apparent, public-private partnerships have since been promoted to mobilize private finance for the public purpose. PPPs have socialized costs and losses while ensuring private financial gains.
Read more...EPA proposes methodology change to allow states to opt to burn more coal.
Read more...Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders introduce legislation: they call it Loan Shark Prevention, which would allow post offices to act as banks and cap interest rates at 15%, but credit card companies claim it would hurt the poor.
Read more...Public policy nudges devised by fans of behavioral scientst Richard Thaler might not be all that they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Is Iran in the midst of a “strategic surge”?
Read more...New CIEL study documents how plastic proliferation threatens the climate on a global scale.
Read more...Five states have enacted draconian laws after protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline generated national attention and inspired a wave of civil disobedience.
Read more...Another fiasco: charter schools in Louisiana.
Read more...Is Boeing itself on a crash course?
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