For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
An in-depth study of how investors in charter schools loot the businesses, and students predictably lose out.
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Patent Buyouts Can Help Win the Race Against Coronavirus Mutations
Instead of merely obtaining the surplus vaccines of rich countries, and relying on unpredictable donations, the existing Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative should acquire the most promising vaccine patents and offer free production licenses.
Read more...NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...CalPERS Devises “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” Gamble for Long-Term Care Policyholders in Settlement
Why the proposed CalPERS long-term care insurance settlement has the look and feel of a con job.
Read more...CalPERS’ Long-Term Care Fiasco: Private Burial to Hide Malfeasance, Failure to Implement Legislation
A key fact in CalPERS’ long-term care debacle: the giant fund flagrantly violated the statute govening this progam.
Read more...The Counterinsurgency Myth
Counterinsurgency is an incoherent approach to conquest that the US has often attempted, with little in the way of success.
Read more...Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down
A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...9/11 Twenty Years On and On and On….
Memories of 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War, plus shaming the guilty
Read more...Elite Educators Have Milked the System for Long Enough
As the pandemic deepens inequality, it’s vital to dismantle the system that gives state schools no chance against elite peers
Read more...Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
Read more...New York Times Exalts Vegan Frankenfoods
The Grey Lady celebrates the culinary alchemy that’s processing plant-based foods so it tastes like meat, dairy, and the pièce de résistance: Spam.
Read more...US as Failed State: Covid Booster Shot Mess
The booster situation has developed not necessarily to the Biden Administration’s advantage.
Read more...US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.
Read more...The Downton Abbey Effect: British Aristocratic Matches with American Business Heiresses in the Late 19th Century
How economically faltering British aristocrats monetized their titles.
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