Hillary Clinton’s Email Hairball Summarized in 11 Points (a Test of Presidential Character)
Hillary Clinton’s email hairball foreshadows the kind of President she would be, and the type of administration she would run.
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“The Battle for VA Healthcare and Its Funding”
Despite its problems, the VA outperforms most of the US healthcare system on nearly every metric of quality.
Read more...The Global War on Drugs Has Unleashed an International Health Crisis, Says Top Health Panel
A study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Lancet has effectively pronounced the war on drugs to be a failure.
Read more...Bill Black: Democrats Need to Give Up Being Deficit Hawks Even When it Feels Good Politically
Why do Democrats act like Republican wannabes with deficit scaremongering? Let us count the reasons: Wall Street, Pete Peterson, hatred of the poor…
Read more...Don Quijones: Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England
The current and former governors of the Bank of England are singing from very different hymnals on the subject of Brexit.
Read more...How McKinsey Helped Turn Big Pharma into a Rent Extraction Business
How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.
Read more...Corporate Media Tries to Bury Sanders Alive
This Real News Network segment focuses on the media’s misconstruction, or more accurately, misrepresentation, of what superdelegates mean for the Sanders campaign.
Read more...Bill Black Speaks to TaxCast About the Political Coalition Against Financial Regulation
This month’s TaxCast features Bill Black on the Whistleblowers United regulatory reform proposals plus why tax amnesties are a bad idea.
Read more...Michael Pettis: Trump and the Re-Emergence of the Jacksonians
Why Trump represents a recurring set of grievances in American politics, and elites are making a mistake in dismissing them.
Read more...Phoenix Mayor Calls for Department of Justice Investigation into Maricopa County Disproportionately Reducing Polling Stations in Minority Neighborhoods
The mayor of Phoenix describes the successful effort to impede electoral participation by minority voters by Maricopa County and calls for a Department of Justice investigation.
Read more...Is California Treasurer John Chiang Serious About His Private Equity Fee Transparency Bill?
Looking beneath the surface of the lackluster arguments e by Treasurer John Chiang and Assemblyman Ken Cooley for their private equity transparency bill.
Read more...The Democrat Establishment Plan for a Three-Front Anti-Trump, Republican-Splitting, Anti-Left Campaign
What victory looks like to the Democratic establishment.
Read more...Responding to Political Attacks on Single Payer
PNHP’s talking points on single payer, with comments and a critique.
Read more...The Refugee Crisis: A European Call for Action
A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...Reducing Carbon Emissions Won’t Halt Economic Growth
The big obstacle to reducing carbon emissions isn’t economic costs, but inertia and the impact on powerfully placed special interests.
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