Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...The current state of play at Grenfell Tower, with a question yet to be answered.
Read more...On the shameful origins of and incentives behind mass incarceration.
Read more...An in-depth look at Trump’s economic plans shows they would enrich the 1% and hurt the “forgotten people” he promised to help.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I said I had some things to do before I left London; one of them was to go see if I could take some photographs of Grenfell Tower. We don’t normally do photo essays at Naked Capitalism, but since I was on the spot, I thought it made sense. The […]
Read more...Privatization conflates public and private interests. In conflicts between them, the private interests win out.
Read more...Why would Trump adopt a foreign model for infrastructure that even conservatives deemed a failure? Apparently for the looting.
Read more...Quelle surprise! The Tories are scheming against the NHS!
Read more...The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.
Read more...A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...More proof that “school choice” as in vouchers, is about profiteering and ideology rather than better education.
Read more...Chicago as a case study in charter school rent extraction.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...A trio of academics compare charter school tactics to Wall Street’s raiders.
Read more...The sales pitch made by charter school boosters does not hold up to scrutiny.
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