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Canada Undermines Targets for Protecting Oceans by Increasing Oil Exploration
Sabine Jessen discusses Trudeau’s plans to increase offshore oil exploration that undermine oceans protection commitments Canada has made.
Read more...Jim Chanos: U.S. Economy is Worse Than You Think
Famed short seller Jim Chanos gives a hard look at America’s fundamentals. He is not impressed by what he sees.
Read more...Stadiums or Schools: An Analysis of Public Expenditures
A look at yet another sop to the rich, in this case sport franchise owners: government-supported stadiums.
Read more...The Slogan ‘Globalization Equals Growth’ Is Wrong
Looking at different types of globalization helps explain why it isn’t necessarily beneficial.
Read more...Gaius Publius: An Investigation in Search of a Crime
How one element of the investigation into Trump is a nothingburger even if it pans out.
Read more...US Backs Away from Blanket Laptop Ban, Imposes New Airline Security Regime Instead
The US pressing tougher security rules– including a bigger role for US agents– under threat of imposing a total ban on laptops in aircraft.
Read more...Seymour Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria
RNN’s Aaron Maté and legendary correspondent Seymour Hersh discuss Hersh’s latest Syria story, originally published in Die Welt.
Read more...Inequality: How We Got Here, and What Should Be Done
More discussion of the causes of rising inequality and possible remedies.
Read more...Why the Medicaid Cap is the Most Horrid Part of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)
The BCRA’s Medicaid cap will create a race to the bottom between the states (and why liberal Democrats aren’t focusing on it).
Read more...EPA, Agencies to Rescind Clean Water Rule
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announces plans to rescind the Clean Water Rule, bowing to developers and other business interests.
Read more...Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages
The gravity defying pay given to top health care managers, particularly the top managers of non-profit hospital systems.
Read more...Reading the CBO Report on the Better Health Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)
The two key tables in the CBO report on the Senate health care bill (the BCRA), with some notes on metholody and the current state of play
Read more...Norman Solomon: Is ‘Russiagate’ Collapsing as a Political Strategy?
Russia scaremongering is losing its punch as a political rallying call, but the Democrats aren’t giving up on it.
Read more...The Senate Health Care Bill (the BCRA) and Its Appeal to Voters
How the Senate health care bill (the BCRA) appeals to the rich, youth, and Swing States
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