- BLACK LIVES MATTER – SOUTH BEND CALLS FOR MAYOR PETE TO RESIGN (Facebook) Uploading a well-deserved can of whup ass on Mayor Pete.
- How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age (Pro Market) How Robert Bork overturned antitrust, and destroyed America.
- Why Is JPMorgan Chase Always in the Middle of Scandalous News? Fake Gold Anyone? (Wall Street on Parade) There is a pattern. Perhaps they should go the way of Arthur Anderson.
- Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer (Ambassador’s Brief) One of Dean Baker’s best essays on the subject.
- How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (New Yorker) Ronan Farrow owns this beat.
- Taking the credit: can universities tackle academic fraud? (Financial Times) Professors are putting their names on articles written by students and subordinates. Hoocoocanode?
- Democracy Dies From Bad Fact-Checking (The Nation) Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler is a contemptible hypocrite.
- New Mexico Abolishes Spousal Privilege And I Have No Idea Who To Talk To About That (Above the Law) This is bad beyond belief.
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