Lee Camp: Here’s Why There Is No Legitimate Healthcare Debate In This Country
A righteous rant about why the way Americans have been propagandized to think about healthcare is a travesty.
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Photographs from Grenfell Tower
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...George Washington: Special Prosecutor Mueller Is a Political Hack
Robert Mueller epitomizes what is wrong with the Washington establishment.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Collapsing Social Contract
Tracing the trajectory of social breakdown in the US.
Read more...The Universal Basic Income Discussion
Kicking the tires on various Universal Basic Income proposals.
Read more...Nina Turner: Wall St. Democrats vs. Working Class Democrats
A wide-ranging discussion with Nina Turner from the People’s Summit in Chicago.
Read more...EU Competition Commissioner Vestager Targets Unaccountable Facebook Algos as Threat at Launch of New “Pro-Democracy” Movement
Facebook is finally getting some long overdue, serious pushback.
Read more...Unsafe at Any Speed Redux: Pinto and Takata Recalls Compared
Pathetic pace of recall of vehicles with defective airbags shows the scant progress made since the first response to Unsafe at Any Speed.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
Read more...Why Withdrawal or “Tiny” Living Isn’t a Solution to Sustainability
Tiny but isolated living may not be doing the planet as much of a favor as many like to believe.
Read more...The White House Flouts Ethics Rules
Even though the Trump Administration is far from a model of probity, it is managing to find new ways to skirt ethics rules.
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...Toward a Jobs Guarantee at the Center for American Progress (!)
A look at a new Jobs Guarantee proposal from Neera Tanden and Rey Teixeira.
Read more...United Tinpot Tyrant Violates Contract, Abuses Customer by Cancelling Ticket for Being Videoed
United hasn’t given up its “kick the customer” service norms.
Read more...Falling Through the Cracks: Insecure Work and the Social Safety Net
How the redefinition of work is not just imposing costs on laborers but society via factors like stress and poor training.
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