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Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy: Destroying labor unions
From Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: If the nation’s health, schools, and prisons, and the world’s climate, are at a watershed moment, so, too, is the U.S. labor force. A large body of research by economists and political scientists over … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy in Chains, labor unions, libertarianism, Nancy MacLean, public schools, public service unions, Scott Walker, teachers unions, United Auto Workers
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Let’s get even deeper into “libertarianism”
I was delighted with Paul Krugman’s column on “libertarianism.” That is, the Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy. That is, what Nancy MacLean’s terrific historical perspective, “Democracy in Chains,” digs into. The Big Lie. Krugman’s column came just as I … Continue reading
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Tagged " Mont Pelerin Society, Betsy DeVos, Brown v Board of Education, charter schools, Democracy in Chains, for-profit virtual charter schools, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, libertarianism, Nancy MacLean, North Carolina public schools, Paul Krugman
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“There are nightmares that make more sense than this”*:The GOP versus the EPA
On the front page of the New York Times the other day was the sickening story, “A Trump County Confronts the Administration With a Rash of Childhood Cancers,” by Hiroko Tabuchi. The county is in Indiana and, as Tabuchi begins: … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged Amity Shlaes, Democracy in Chains, Ewing's sarcoma, Flint Michigan, Flint River, Glioblastoma, Johnson County Indiana, Koch Brothers, libertarianism, lymphocytic leukemia, Mackinac Center, Nicholas Kristof, public choice theory, State Policy Network, the GOP versus the EPA
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