In a busy week for regulatory action, Pete Buttigieg’s emergence in fighting corporate power should not be overlooked.
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Posted inEducation in America
Congress Poised to Prevent One Form of Student Debt Relief
The FAA reauthorization bans debt cancellation for flight education loans.
Posted inTransportation
Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Strange Death of a Boeing Whistleblower
There’s no way America’s last great manufacturer murdered a prominent critic … is there?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Blowing the Door Off Boeing’s ‘Epstein Deal’
The lawyer who busted open Jeffrey Epstein’s sweetheart deal sues DOJ for the goods on Trump’s slimy deferred prosecution agreement with the 737 manufacturer.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Weak Link in Industrial Policy: Corporate Patriotism
When supposed national champions sell out the national interest
Posted inTransportation
How Boeing Ruined the JetBlue-Spirit Merger
The judge’s ruling in the case revealed all the deficiencies in the manufacturing and distribution of commercial air travel.
Posted inTAP
The Airbus Advantage
Today on TAP: Why Europe’s mixed economy produces safer planes than America’s financialized capitalism
Posted inTransportation
Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset
The door plug that ripped off an Alaska Airlines plane only exists because of cost-cutting production techniques to facilitate cramming more passengers into the cabin.
Posted inTransportation
Department of Transportation Issues $140 Million Fine for 2022 Southwest Holiday Meltdown
The company will compensate customers who experience major delays or cancellations with travel vouchers, over and above offsetting all costs from the disruptions.