Privatization

Public education, one of the storied pillars of our society, is under attack by people and institutions who like to think of themselves as reformers.

Contrarians of the world should unite to identify and challenge these ruling ideas.

Handing previous public services over to private corporations, without assessing the full costs, can become a 75-year-long nightmare, as in the case of parking in Chicago, argues Ellen Dannin.

The charges highlight the problems that come with privatizing critical government functions.

Language in boilerplate contracts and the advice of advisers with conflicts of interest often serve to favor privatization of public services, such as highway construction, which can cost taxpayers …

Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …

The US has a long history of big, publicly funded infrastructure projects undermined by inadequate taxation and a lurch to privatization that is disastrous.

The goals of faster and cheaper military housing may have been achieved through privatization, but problems including unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems including mold has …

If you stop jailing people in The Land of The Free, a good chunk of America would wither up and die.

As private prisons become the norm in the United States, it's time society takes a look at the institution and asks,