CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Says She’s Not in Charge and Lies to the Board About Receiving a Warning from the Fair Political Practices Commission
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost doesn’t even bother to lie well.
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New York City Seeks to Shortchange Teachers on $900 Million of Back Pay
Another sign of increasing budget problems in New York City.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?
Read more...Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order
Trump believes he protected people with pre-existing conditions and eliminated surprise billing via an executive order. He did not.
Read more...Live Blog: Vice-Presidential Debate in Salt Lake City, UT
Pence v. Harris
Read more...Trump Shoots His Campaign in the Head
Trump is back to his usual self-destructive form.
Read more...Brexit: Running the Clock Down
Why Brexit motion should not be confused with progress.
Read more...Chamber of Commerce Quietly Supports a United Government Led by Democrats
The Chamber of Commerce cozying up to Team Dem is quite a bellweather.
Read more...Right to Repair Redux: Massachusetts Ballot Questions
Massachusetts has another right to repair ballot question, updating its 2012 provision that resulted in landmark 2013 legislation.
Read more...Thomas Frank’s Essential Insight – True Populism Is Transracial: An Interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism
How Jim Crow laws were a backlash against 19th Century populism of having poor whites and blacks join forces to seek economic justice.
Read more...Daniel Ellsberg on the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism
Daniel Ellsberg, in an interview with Paul Jay, describes the threat the Assange show trial poses for journalists around the world.
Read more...Macro N Cheese – Debt Deflation and the Neofeudal Empire with Michael Hudson
Another tour de force by Michael Hudson, this one stressing the role of unproductive real estate in modern debt bondage and Trump’s MMT.
Read more...Top Law Firms Called Out for Serving Fossil Fuel Industry Clients in New Climate ‘Scorecard’
Law students call out leading law firms for facilitating policies that promote fossil fuel clients and exacerbate climate change.
Read more...Why Don’t We Study Countries That Have Had COVID-19 Success?
Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and New Zealand have recorded low COVID-19 deaths. Why do we hear so little about the reeasons for their success?
Read more...The Chamber Of Commerce Dems From The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party Just Undercut Pelosi’s Pandemic Negotiations With Mnuchin
Various corporate interests are tossing around their weight on the latest pandemic stimlus package, pressing for it to be lean and mean.
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