Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Robert Reich: Here’s Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech
Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information.
Brexit: Impacts and Prospects
While the apocalyptic predictions of the Remain campaign have failed to materialize, the economic damage has nevertheless been significant.
Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #1 in Miami (First Night)
Open thread on the debates.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Partially open thread (more to come).
Cheat Sheet for Tonight and Tomorrow’s Democrat Presidential Debates
Debate terrain, the role of the press, candidate form in previous debates, and the role of the press
How Judges Kill: Sealing Corporate Records Showing Destructive Behavior Based on Dubious “Trade Secret” Claims
Judges who are unduly deferential to corporate secrecy demands are literally killing Americans.
Health Care Price Transparency: Fool’s Gold, or Real Money in Your Pocket?
A former insider explains why more transparnecy won’t solve bad health care pricing practices.
The Individual Costs of Occupational Decline
Quelle surprise! Occupational decline, aka “The robots ate my career,” lowers lifetime earnings, particulalry for low-wage workers.
Book Review: John Patrick Leary’s “Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism”
One more book to read!
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/25/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, DNC and debates, knitters, Google donations, DSA dog caucus, manufacturing, Toys “R” Us, Amazon, Comcast ripoff, Green New Deal, permafrost, forests, weed, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Zork, epic trolling
“Convenience” for Whom?
Lambert goes to the convenience store and buys coffee.
Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump Is Deepening the ‘Economic War’ Against Iran
Lawernce Wilkerson offers another dose of his pithy commentary on US policy versus Iran.
