Take the (Night) Train Redux
My recent trip on the night train from High Point, North Carolina, to NYC.
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US and Iran “At Cliff’s Edge”
Patrick Cockburn, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, discusses the situation in Iran with the Real News Network.
Read more...North Carolina Did What SCOTUS Wouldn’t – Ended GOP Gerrymandering
RNN interview with Dan Vicuna, discussing how a North Carolina state court recently stopped a Republican gerrymandering plan.
Read more...While PG&E Played a ‘Cat and Mouse Game’ With California Regulators, Where Was Kamala?
The WSJ account of how PG&E played a “cat and mouse game” with regulators; alas, California’s utilities commission “is not a particularly adroit cat.”
Read more...Trump Seeks to Revoke California Emissions Waiver
Trump looks to rollback California’s 1970 waiver under the Clean Air Act, which allowed the state to set emissions standards.
Read more...Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry
How neoliberal grifters, pursuing charter school profits, destroyed an historic building.
Read more...Apple Blinks on Right to Repair: Or Does It?
Apple makes modest concessions on the right to repair. Seems to be less here than meets the eye.
Read more...Summers and the Road to Damascus
Why pushing on a string has never worked: monetary policy has never been robustly effective in promoting economic recovery or growth.
Read more...UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder
Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.
Read more...Brexit: Thar She Blows
Does Parliament’s revolt agaist Boris Johnson on Brexit amount to progress?
Read more...R.I.P. Immanuel Wallerstein, Sociologist and “World Systems” Theorist
Immanuel Wallerstein on China, Brazil, racism, and the future.
Read more...Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
Nearly 8% of Americans 60 and older were “food insecure” in 2017.
Read more...Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil
While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.
Read more...AOC Calls Out Barbara Boxer for Helping Lyft Fight Against California Labor Bill
AOC: Former government officials “should not become corporate lobbyists, in letter or spirit.”
Read more...Bill Black: Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt?
Bill Black presents evidence the system is corrupt and rigged against ordinary people – a sentiment with which a new poll shows many agree.
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