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A Blueprint for Bankruptcy
The “privates” in much-touted “public private partnerships” make billions by seeming to lose millions in US transportation projects.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle With the Islamic State
Here are seven worst-case scenarios in a part of the world where the worst case has regularly been the best that's on offer.
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Pay to Prey: Governors Facilitate the Predatory Outsourcing of US Public Services
Shocking new allegations of a murder-for-hire plot are emerging from Michigan as the media digs deeper into that state's failed outsourcing of prison services.
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The United States Is Founded Upon the Model of European Conquest: Dispose of the Disposable People
In order to expand, the original 13 colonies had to decimate the Native-American nations and seize their lands.
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Sins, Both Moral and Intellectual
If inflation had in fact risen, they would have claimed vindication.
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Personalizing Our Resistance to Domestic Violence
While telling our personal stories of struggle may sometimes feel self-serving, stories of personal trauma are the key to humanizing statistics of domestic violence.
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Disarm the Police
How would disarming the police affect police-community relations?
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The Real Rick Scott Debate Scandal
In large part because of decisions made during the Reagan and Clinton administrations, our media is now an info-tainment mess.
Pollution Inequality and Income Inequality
Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by pollution across the United States, according to a new study by economist James K. Boyce.
As Second Dallas Nurse Diagnosed With Ebola, Are US Hospitals Failing Health Care Workers?
As a second health care worker at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital tests positive for Ebola after caring for an infected patien, the CDC has identified what it calls …