Month: November 2025
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Is the DOJ Serious About Investigating Beef Price-Fixing?
Apparently shaken by the Democratic gains in this month’s elections, Donald Trump has changed his tune on the economy. He still tries to get us to believe everything is marvelous, but at the same time he has rolled out a series of proposals designed to give the impression he is addressing the affordability crisis. Most…
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The Other Sins of the Big Greenhouse Gas Emitters
As the COP30 climate talks take place in Brazil, the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has just published its latest list of the corporations that contribute the most to the global warming crisis in the United States. Unfortunately, PERI warns that this version of the Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index may…
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Taking Aim at Whistleblowers
Everyone in the Trump Administration seems hellbent on giving the president as much power as possible over nearly everything. Congressional Republicans are playing along. Things are less clear in the courts, especially in the wake of the skeptical reception Trump’s tariffs just received in the Supreme Court. Yet there is a lower-profile judicial effort in…