The story of the missing telephone poles, the Puerto Rican exodus, and the Aurelius case, where nobody knows anything.
Read more...Inequality isn’t driven by taxes—it’s driven by the power of capital in relation to workers.
Read more...How the marketing model the Sackler family developed to promote OxyContin is being applied to one of their pet causes, charter schools.
Read more...A fortune derived from the relentless marketing of painkillers is now being used to expand charter schools.
Read more...Looking at arguments used to justify original claims on land (meaning private ownership versus common ownership or use).
Read more...The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
Read more...The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business.
Read more...Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...PG&E, tree-trimming, and profit.
Read more...School lunches: yet another area where the privatization fairy has failed to perform a miracle and cut costs while raising standards.
Read more...Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...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.
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