Financing a Global Green New Deal: System Change Needed
Discussion of a contested topic: How to pay for a Green New Deal.
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Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck
Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.
Read more...A New Pipeline Could Undo America’s Influence In Asia
A China-Pakistan pipeline deal bodes ill for the US.
Read more...The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Read more...Are Evidence-Based Decisions Impossible in Politics?
How human psychology and institutional incentives undermine making good decisions in the political arena, and what can be done about that.
Read more...With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics
A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S. in the wrong direction to prevent catastrophic impacts from climate change.
Read more...Making Sense of Bolivia’s Discontent
Unpacking the many political and policy contradictions in Bolivia over the past decade.
Read more...Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
Read more...Lack of Right to Repair Limits Ability of US Military to Maintain its Own Equipment
Support for right to repair from an unlikely quarter: US military. Military hardware is sometimes shipped back to the states for repair.
Read more...PG&E Failed California. Here’s How the State Could Turn Things Around.
How PG&E came to dominate California’s electricity market, plus discussion of options to fix the fiery mess it has created.
Read more...On TV, Political Ads Are Regulated – But Online, Anything Goes
We’ve had over two years of pearl-clutching about political ads in the Internet era. What if anything should be done?
Read more...“The UN Is Being Turned into a Public-Private Partnership”: Harris Gleckman Explains Stealth Takeover by World Economic Forum
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #7 in Atlanta, Georgia
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★Ten candidates on one stage! ★★★ Come on down!
Read more...How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined
Neoliberal economics rests on a retrograde vision of society.
Read more...Democrats’ Private Equity Hearing Fail: Abject Incompetence, Corruption, or Mere Unseriousness?
A House Financial Services Committee hearing on private equity revealed more about the party than about private equity, and in a not good way at that.
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