British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
Read more...Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...A study on Texas turning Medicaid over to private contractors shows mixed results, which is better than most critics would expect. But does this study attribute bennies to privatization that aren’t justified?
Read more...How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...Firms that help place handpicked candidates in school leadership positions use those connections to sell other products and services.
Read more...Californians have had it with PG&E. But is San Francisco overpaying to get rid of them? Take a look.
Read more...Four existential threats to Boeing: Adverse court judgments, losing insurance retroactively, new competitors, and the end of today’s regulatory regime.
Read more...The World Bank wants to double down on financial gimmickry rather than develop the public health infrastructure to combat pandemics.
Read more...The two Bretton Woods institutions the have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and advice they have dispensed to developing countries in recent decades.
Read more...Since the introduction of private prisons, rates of incarceration have risen strongly . How much are those prisons to blame?
Read more...Military contractors have used the threat of US job cuts to extract more dough from American taxpayers….and then cut US jobs.
Read more...Even budget hawks ought to embrace infrastructure spending, since those projects typically produce $3 of tax revenues for every $1 spent when there’s a backlog, as we clearly have in the US. So what is Trump’s excuse?
Read more...There are good reasons to be leery of billionaires colonizing a public sector activity like space exploration.
Read more...A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
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