In recent years, the Pentagon has welcomed new contracting processes that pad military contractorsā profits ā a trend that is now being…
Just weeks before the American military operation in Venezuela to capture President NicolĆ”s Maduro, the US energy giant Halliburton filed an unusual lawsuit in international court claiming the Venezuelan…
An eye-popping new report reveals that private military contractors are getting rich off Donald Trumpās One Big Beautiful Bill Act with little accountability. The budget…
A new study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics reveals that nearly half of US federal judges attended crash courses in economics at the conservative-leaning Manne…
Oklahoma just announced a new fifty-question assessment model for teachers designed to ā[keep] away woke indoctrinatorsā from the stateās schools. That test ā which…
Fossil fuel companies are profiting off an obscure state tax break depriving California of up to $146 million of annual tax revenue…
In the years before Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina last week, the stateās Republican lawmakers and corporate interests continually fought climate adaptation…
A little more than a year before Microsoftās systems crashed on Friday, creating global chaos in the banking, airline, and emergency service…
Days after a massive cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Republican US senate candidate Larry HoganĀ called forĀ the…
The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for…
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