Fake "good news" was meant to swindle the public.

Misguided government spending on corporate welfare to win jobs away from other cities and states has tripled since 1990. It directly undercuts the state's proper missions.

I would not, however, say that the competition was a "charade" -- a no-op. I suspect it won Amazon a bigger subsidy, compared with what it could have got from the same places without the competition.

The total annual expenditures sometimes reach 90 billion dollars.

Ralph Nader: how right-wingers tarnish the words that we use to describe progressive views.

I should point out that around 1970, an increasing number of the politicians who did not hesitate to call themselves Liberals did oppose the Vietnam war. The reason many Democratic politicians today support militarism is the same as the reason they support the big banks: they are center-right servants of big business.

One reason the Democratic Party won the House of Representatives is that it took advantage of electoral districts that were drawn up in non-partisan ways.

Representatives of students of the Schola Europaea schools called on the UN to "stop withholding the science facts about global collapse, or nothing will be done to stop it."