The Destructive Power of Preemption: How Congress Can Use It to Bar State Action on Climate
How federal preemption of environmental rules can stymie the plans of California and other states to ignore Trump’s policies.
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“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”
Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...More Brexit Delusion: City Issues Wish List That the EU Already Rejected
When you’d thought the British had reached the limits of outlandishness on the Brexit front, they manage to outdo themselves.
Read more...How Tillerson Could Jeopardize Geopolitics In Iraq
Rex Tillerson’s deal with the Kurds when he was Exxon CEO undermined the US in Iraq. How would he square this circle if confirmed?
Read more...Lessons From the Demise of the TPP
Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Read more...Calling Readers! Fight for Corruption-Busting SC Treasurer Curt Loftis As GOP Tries to End His Pension Oversight Role
Pension-corruption-fighter/state Treasurer Curt Loftis is under attack. Urge everyone you know in South Carolina to come to his defense.
Read more...Wolf Richter: What’s Going on with the Banks? Citi Cuts Goldman to “Sell,” after Goldman Cut Citi to “Neutral”
Citi and Goldman downgrades suggest the Trump trade may be overdone.
Read more...How ’60 Minutes’ Became a Pentagon Mouthpiece for Drone War
Drone warfare as an example of how the military uses overly-cozy news outlets to sell its pet initiatives.
Read more...House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Read more...TrumpCare, Pre-Existing Conditions, and “Continuous Coverage”
“Continuous Coverage” is the Republican solution for avoiding a death spiral by covering pre-existing conditions. How bad will it be?
Read more...Yet Another Glaring Flaw With Trump Infrastructure Plan: Dependence on Vagaries of Tiny, Slow-Moving Tax Equity Market
The oh-so-clever Trump plan to use tax credits to fund infrastructure spending means it will be too small and slow to provide any real boost.
Read more...One of the Reasons Republicans Hate Food Stamps? It Helps Democrats Win Elections
Many people think food stamp advocacy is politically dangerous for Democrats, but a new paper suggests otherwise.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: How the US Blew the Post-Cold-War Era
Why the end of the Cold War and the era of the US as the world’s sole superpower has not worked out as well as predicted.
Read more...Once You Can Fake News, You’ve Got It Made (A Walk Down Memory Lane)
The biggest fake news story in recent memory was from the mainstream media: Iraq
Read more...Trump’s Win: America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy
Looking at why Trump won and the implications for his presidency.
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