2016 Post Mortem: How Associated Press Reporter Lina Lerer Repeatedly Sandbagged Sanders
An in-depth study of Associated Press reporter Lina Lerer’s work during the 2016 Democratic primary shows a marked anti-Sanders slant.
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In California Farm Country, Trump’s Deportation Threat Looms Large
A closer look at America’s dependence on de facto sanctioned but nevertheless illegal farm workers,
Read more...“Civil Rights Groups” Throw Public Under the Bus on Net Neutrality for Their Big Telco Donors
How the big telcos have bought off so-called civil rights groups, who are pushing hard to end net neutrality.
Read more...Euroland: Will the Netherlands Be the Next Domino To Fall?
The upcoming elections in the Netherland demonstrate how austerity is stoking anti-elitist, anti-Euro sentiments.
Read more...Trump’s and Hensarling’s Fact-Free Attack on Dodd Frank
Debunking Republican canards about Dodd Frank.
Read more...Bill Black: New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Tries to Make Hank Paulson a Hero
As part of reviewing Obama’s legacy, Bill Black eviscerates how Sorkin’s book tried to exhonorate Hank Paulson for his crisis performance.
Read more...Republicans Deploy CRA Authority to Roll Back Regulations
Republicans move to deploy authority provided by the 1996 Congressional Review Act to void regulations passed since June 2016.
Read more...Germany-IMF Staredown on Greece: The Election Calculus
How upcoming European elections could play into the Greek debt negotiations.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Trump Promises “Fast Trains,” Japan’s Railway Stocks Soar
Trump and Abe send signals over Japan involvement in developing US high-speed rail– good news for stalled California project?
Read more...Book Review: The Econocracy
The new book Econocracy describes how economics has become a narrow ideology with far too much power and what can be done about it
Read more...“In Case You Thought Trump Was Imploding….”
A cool-headed look at some Trump indicators.
Read more...Los Angeles Times Calls Out CalPERS Board for “Trying to Muzzle” the One Director Who “Asks Tough Questions”
The Los Angeles Times weighs in on a story we broke. It sharply criticizes CalPERS trustees for trying to gag their most effective member.
Read more...Mark Blyth on How Liberalism Undermined Democracy and the Failure of the Democratic Party
Mark Blyth gives another astute, sobering reading of US and international politics.
Read more...Women Skeptical of the Women’s March
A critical appraisal of the Women’s March.
Read more...John Helmer: Kremlin Lapels Point to Putin as President for Life
A tutorial on peaked lapels as a political indictor.
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