The National Conference of State Legislatures is a pay-to-play machine for business interests, critics say, not the disinterested policy organization it claims to be.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Corporate Hospitals Bilking Americans as GOP Destroys Health Care
Patients are caught in the middle of a corporate money grab and lawmakers who refuse to regulate.
Posted inTAP
The Complacent Class
The Milken Conference in Los Angeles is designed for the global financial elite. Their thinking about the Iran war is childish.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love
His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood
Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike.
Posted inTransportation
Aftermath: How the War Might Cancel Your Flight
In today’s newsletter: Higher aviation travel prices and even mass cancellations are imminent. Also, China is a big winner and loser from the war.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Greed Flows South
Some of our billionaires feel comfortable only in states of the neo-Confederacy.
Posted inTechnology
Who Will Govern AI?
Trump’s top officials are in the pocket of Big Tech. It remains to be seen whether Democrats will be much better.
Posted inTAP
Democrats Get Serious About Taxing the Rich
Having finally realized that the rich are orders of magnitude richer than they used to be.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court
The deal contains a fairly useless set of conditions. More than two dozen states vow to continue fighting.
