Backlash against policy of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to blacklist vendors who work with anyone—including primary challengers—who run against an incumbent Democrat.
Read more...Interior administration official promises to offer fossil fuel leases for sale in 2019 to allow drilling in previously pristine Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to commence.
Read more...Florida becomes a charter school battleground as communities fight a state law that diverts some of the proceeds from bond offererings, even ones approved for public school teacher salaries, to charter schools.
Read more...Glyposphate use increases throughout the Midwest, and Bayer loses its third Roundup case. The company appears confident that higher US courts will reverse pro-plaintiff verdicts.
Read more...AOC outs an unlikely ally after tweet calling for a lifetime ban on former members of Congress becoming lobbyists: an attempt to stop the revolving door between “public service” and personal profit.
Read more...Trump administration continues to follow the self-regulation gospel – this time in the area of rail safety. This case study in corporate capture of American regulation is yet another area where the accidents are just waiting to happen.
Read more...Why the foundations of conservatism are crumbling.
Read more...Why should governments give cash-handouts before providing free, quality public services to all?
Read more...Possible American and EU responses to multipolar politics.
Read more...Voters accepted that authoritarianism would produce security, which neutralised warnings by intellectuals and opposition parties that Modi’s India was heading towards fascism.
Read more...There are many barriers to registering and voting, which in toto amount to optimizing the exercise of the ballot for income.
Read more...Those whose names are engraved on the wall in Marseilles died in service to their country. Of that there is no doubt. Whether they died to advance the cause of freedom or even the wellbeing of the United States is another matter entirely.
Read more...The US has added new charges againat Julian Assange that represent a threat to journalists.
Read more...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?
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