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Category Archives: Privatization

The 2014 Election Disaster: What Now

November 5, 2014 2014 Election democracy Democrats Economics Elections Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Republicans 48 Comments

American Police are Currently Engaging in Legal Multi-Million Dollar Highway Robbery with their “Civil Asset Forfeiture” Programs

September 10, 2014 Criminal Justice Legal Injustice Police Police State 2 Comments

Infographic: Private Prison Injustice

September 4, 2014 Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Criminal Justice Discrimination Legal Injustice Private Prisons Privatization 2 Comments

FL Prison Guards Boil Mentally Ill Inmate Alive, Don’t Get Charged with a Crime

May 26, 2014 8th Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Drug War Prison Private Prisons Torture 2 Comments

Three Birds with One Stone: Protect the Post Office, Increase Banking Access for the Poor, and Make Student Loans More Affordable

May 22, 2014 De Economic Crisis Economics education Inequality Post Office Poverty student loans 1 Comment

Is the USA Center-Right? An Issue-by-Issue Breakdown

May 2, 2014 Abortion Conservative Defense Policy global climate change Gun Control Health Policy Immigration Policy Inequality Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Progressive Regulation Tax Policy Taxation Women's Rights 12 Comments

The Plan to Cut Budgets by Robbing Public Pensions

December 27, 2013 Conservative Economics Inequality Partisan Fighting Poverty Privatization Republicans Taxation 4 Comments

A Weak Government Power Vacuum

December 11, 2013 Conservative Corporatism Corruption Deregulation Economic Crisis Libertarian Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Regulation Republicans Leave a comment

Will Corporations have Limited Liability, 1st Amendment Personhood, and Nation-State Statuses?

December 9, 2013 Constitution Corporatism Corruption Democrats International Relations Republicans Supreme Court Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership Transparency 4 Comments

Bread, Circus, and the Complacency Before the Collapse

November 21, 2013 Campaigns Conservative Corporatism Corruption Democrats Deregulation Economics Environment extremism Inequality Money in Politics Policy Progressive Regulation Republicans Taxation Voting 10 Comments

Our Mixed Economic System

November 18, 2013 capitalism Conservative Democrats Economics extremism mixed economy Partisan Fighting Policy politics Poverty Progressive Republicans Social Security socialism Taxation Welfare 2 Comments

Detroit, Belle Isle and Elysium

September 3, 2013 Economics Immigration Policy Inequality Legal Injustice Media Prediction 12 Comments

The Death of the American Dream (at least for 80% of us)

July 29, 2013 Austerity Democrats Deregulation Economics Inequality Poverty Regulation Republicans Tax Policy Taxation 2 Comments

Partisanship and the “Faith Gap”

June 5, 2013 2012 Election Democrats Partisan Fighting propaganda Republicans Tea Party Leave a comment

How Mass Transit Austerity Targets the Poor

May 7, 2013 Austerity Budget Economics Inequality Mass-Transit MBTA Occupy Leave a comment

Why American Public Schools are Failing

May 6, 2013 Austerity Deficit Reduction education Privatization schools 8 Comments

The Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion

May 1, 2013 Deregulation Environment EPA Regulation Republicans 6 Comments

Libertarianism: A Luxury for Citizens of Developed Countries

March 27, 2013 Conservative free-market Libertarian Policy 21 Comments

The Private Prisons of America

March 2, 2013 Corporatism Corruption Money in Politics Prison Private Prisons Privatization 8 Comments

No Matter Who Wins the 2012 Presidential Election Monsanto Benefits

November 5, 2012 2012 Election Campaigns Corporatism Corruption Democrats Deregulation Economics Environment EPA Money in Politics Monsanto Occupy Policy Pollution Regulation Republicans Tax Policy Taxation 13 Comments

Why Conservatives Love “States’ Rights”

October 29, 2012 Campaigns Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Corporatism Corruption Deregulation Libertarian Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Regulation Religion in Politics Republicans Social Conservative Tax Policy Tea Party Leave a comment

What American Conservatives Really Mean When they Say “Small Government”

October 28, 2012 1st Amendment Abortion Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Defense Policy Deregulation Libertarian Money in Politics Policy Regulation Republicans Social Conservative Taxation 3 Comments

The Danger of Removing Facts from Public Policy

October 25, 2012 Defense Policy Democrats Deregulation Environment Partisan Fighting Policy Pollution Regulation Republicans Tax Policy Leave a comment

The New Kleptocracy

October 24, 2012 ALEC Corporatism Corruption Democrats Economics Inequality Money in Politics Occupy Policy Privatization Republicans Super-PACS Taxation Wolf-PAC Leave a comment

The Republican End State Counterfactual

October 24, 2012 Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Deregulation Economics Inequality Policy Prediction Privatization Religion in Politics Republicans Taxation Tea Party Leave a comment

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