How free-market economists, central bankers, rapacious CEOs, and free-trade diplomats undermined the New Deal order
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Posted inAmerica and the World
Altercation: New York Times Headline Whitewashes Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing
America’s most influential news source bends over backward to shade the truth about the bullet that killed the beloved Palestinian American journalist.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Will the Oligarchs Who Own the U.S. Media Save Democracy? Don’t Bet on It.
CNN’s move to the ‘center’ is more bad news for news the country can really use.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Altercation: Is Brookings a ‘Liberal’ Think Tank or a Big-Money Lobbyist
The case of its abruptly resigned leader highlights its dependence on big money from the Gulf.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: What the Death of Newspapers Really Means
What fills the void is what’s threatening democracy.
Posted inBooks
The Pain Profiteers
Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators.
Posted inBooks
The Giant Pandemic Pool of Money
A new book details the penny-ante crooks extracting federal cash during COVID, and the disastrous budget decisions that gave them the opportunity.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Best (Progressive) Democrat You Probably Never Heard Of
Michael Kazin on Robert Wagner
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Return of a Criminal Neocon
Why does the foreign-policy and journalistic establishment still welcome Elliott Abrams?
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Times Investigation of Tucker Carlson Was Superb—but …
Why does its daily coverage revert to bothsidesism and ignore the revelations in its blowout profiles?
