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Solutions
The Solutions column was created to take Dina Rasor's 30-year knowledge of why the government wasn't working and, slice by slice, come up with realistic solutions to fix long-term problems.
Generals Who Don’t Just Fade Away: The Newest in Self-Dealing Maneuvers
Gen. Douglas MacArthur was one of the major generals of World War II and Korea, but he will also always be known as one of the generals who was …
Lockheed: The Ultimate Pay-to-Play Contractor
Loren Thompson is one of those people in Washington, DC, circles that wears several hats. He is the chief operating officer for the nonprofit Lexington Institute, a think tank …
Who Do You Want to Oversee Medicare?
President Barack Obama talks on the phone while aboard Air Force One. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Within the past month, the Obama administration has heard …
Not Even a Fig Leaf: The Blatant Self-Dealing of Chairman McKeon
Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon has taken self-dealing to new heights.
Self-Dealing in Government: No. 1 Impediment to Reform
The public hears about the deluge of corrupting money in the system, but they need individual examples to understand.
War Is Too Tragic for Weak Balance of Powers
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Two weeks ago, I wrote a column on how President Obama, as with some presidents in the past, fired military generals who …
Federal Pay: Another Battle in the War on the Middle Class
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Charles Smith is a retired Army civilian employee hero, who went up against the Iraq contractor KBR on behalf of the troops …
Reclaiming Civilian Control: How to Keep Generals as Warriors, Not Politicians
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Sometimes history and circumstances offer us solutions to centuries-old problems and tensions within our long-lasting government. Even though we feel like a …
Pentagon Solutions: Slices of Change Could Save Billions
(Image: Truthout) Last year, Truthout started this new “Solutions: Making Government Work” column to give me a platform to explore different areas of government and how we …
Defender of the Capitalist System: Department of Defense Worst in Competitive Contracts
The first production A-10A was delivered to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, in October 1975 and it launched 90 percent of the AGM-65 Maverick missiles. (Photo: awee_19 / flickr) …