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From Rust Belt to Blue Belt: Water, Climate Change and the Reordering of the Urban US
Water tables across America, many of them formed hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago, are being over-pumped to compensate for out of control population growth and droughts …
Reasonable Wrongness
The American distaste for prepositional clauses leads them to think that in order to arrest someone there has to be “probable cause.”
Cromnibus Pension Provisions Gut 40 Years of Policy, Allow Existing Pensions to Be Slashed
Even if you're retired and vested in a private pension plan, your benefits could be cut under the Kline-Miller amendment.
Innovations or Hucksterism? Three Little-Known Infrastructure Privatization Problems
Studies find hype and tax breaks drive private infrastructure projects.
Why USAID Could Never Spark a Hip Hop Revolution in Cuba
Any attempt to engineer a US-affiliated movement from above is destined to be revealed for the farce that it is.
Utah Land Defenders Stand Up to Dirty Politics
The land defenders say that with enough pushback, investors may get nervous.
Who’s Afraid of Shareholder Democracy?
The US Chamber of Commerce, one of biggest corporate trade associations, and ALEC, one of biggest corporate lobbying groups are both startlingly hostile to shareholders.
Unbelievable: Telecoms Claim They’re Worried About Your Bill!
The telecoms remind us of the mafia: “If you reclassify the Internet as a public utility, it's gonna cost you.”
Subsidy Spotlight: Publicly Funding a Utah Disaster in the Making
Oil and gas executives are flocking to the Uinta Basin in Eastern Utah.
Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo Weren’t the First: A Short History of Brutal Cops Let Off the Hook by the US Justice System
The US has a long history of allowing police to walk free after vicious racist violence.