Millionaire-Driven Education Reform Has Failed. Here’s What Works.
Journalist Andrea Gabor’s new book heralds a “quiet revolution” in education you didn’t know was happening.
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An American Budget
What a sound national budget might look like.
Read more...Venezuela Coup Attempt Part of US Plan to Remake Latin America
Unfortunately, US support of the attempted coup in Venezuela is just one part of planned interventions south of the border.
Read more...Controversial Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Could Be Operational By November
So much for US ire over the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
Read more...‘Foxconn Was a Major Con’: Backed by Trump Promises and $4 Billion in Subsidies, Company Admits Factory Jobs Not Coming
Foxconn fleeced Wisconsin. But this was a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Brexit: May Running Down the Clock by Backing Yet-Again-Nixed Renegotiation of Withdrawal Agreement
May is still firmly in charge of Brexit as various Parliamentary gambits go splat.
Read more...Many Countries at UN Oppose Trump Interference in Venezuela
The US plans for Venezuela don’t have the degree of foreign support that the press would have you believe.
Read more...The Silicon Curtain: The Gloves Come Off With China
An Australian perspective on the West’s growing conflict with China.
Read more...Global Gains on Right to Repair
The right to repair movement is growing — not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well.
Read more...7th Circuit Rules Age Discrimination Law Does Not Include Job Applicants
Seventh Circuit hands down major age discrimination decision holding that federal disparate impact protection does not extend to job applicants and applies to employees only.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: In Antitrust, Size Isn’t Everything
Simply breaking up monopolies via century-old economic remedies recommended by antitrust doctrine is insufficient if it is not accompanied by a rebalancing of economic power.
Read more...Brexit “Singapore on the Thames” Fantasies
A jaundiced look at “Singapore on the Thames,” yet another barmy Brexit idea.
Read more...Los Angeles Teachers Make the Case That Charter Schools Are an Existential Threat to Public Education
Charter schools undermine public schools, and that’s a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Are Federal Workers Being Forced Into Involuntary Servitude?
A useful, if disheartening, discussion of the limited legal grounds workers have for successfully pursuing “coercion” cases.
Read more...Gilets Jaunes Under Attack
The gilets jaunes have arisen out of the profound inequality that is fracturing societies across Europe. It is against that inequality that leaders must take a strong stance.
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