Saturday, October 18, 2025
Unions Demand Pelosi and Schumer Include Lower Medicare Age, Drug Pricing Reform in Infrastructure Plan
Unions urge Biden and Congress to include expanded Medicare eligibility and prescription drug pricing reform in the infrastructure plan.
Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products
Despite warning that freebies to surgeons might constitute fraud, the feds have yet to ramp up enforcement actions.
CDC Continues on Form: Suppressing Aerosol Transmission in Covid FAQ, “See No Evil” Testing for Breakthrough Cases
Romanov-like efficiency…
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2021
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Biden Taps Lina Khan to Chair the FTC
Hours after the Senate confirmed her nomination to the FTC, Biden tapped noted Big Tech critic Lina Khan to chair the agency.
Store Drop-Off: Another Recycling Fail
WalMart’s misleading claims about recycling set back efforts to shift away from unnecessary plastic packaging and single-use plastics.
How the U.S. Lost National Healthcare
An excerpt from Kai Bird’s just released book about U.S. health care, The Outlier.
Rocky Mountain Forests Burning More Now Than Any Time in the Past 2,000 Years
Reducing the threats of increasing wildfires requires both combating climate change and learning to live in ways that help make our communities more resilient to our fire-prone future.
Is the Only Green Thing about Cannabis the Almighty Dollar?
Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/15/2021
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First UK Inquiry Into Greensill Scandal Calls for Extension to Lobbying Ban for Former Ministers and Civil Servants
The inquiry also recommends greater transparency and accountability from the government. Unfortunately, the trend is in the opposite direction.
Matt Stoller: A Society Designed to Incentivize Criminal Behavior at the Highest Level
Lambert Strether: Invigorating and insightful discussion (though I’d slip the mutual self-congratulation with the interviewer at the very end). Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, talks about the many ways in which the US economic system has become […]
