Restructuring North Carolina's electricity market would mean ending longstanding policies that have left the South largely without competition among power companies.
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What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States
Robert Reich takes a take an in-depth look at antitrust laws in the United States and explains how corporate giants have come to dominate the American economy and politics.
After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.
(Fair warning: some of these are fairly wonky, so if you’re not the type that gets excited by telecom law, you can always skip to the part where you call your senators and representative and tell them not to repeal the FCC’s ISP privacy rules—because if we raise our voices together, we can stop Congress before it’s too late.)
Bad news for consumers and workers: This year has already seen $4 trillion worth of mergers and acquisitions deals.
An early expression of democracy, the US patent system is out of step with today’s citizens.
Unresponsive power institutions are a bad legacy of the 20th century. And they are the biggest obstacle to improved electricity access for the developing world's poor people -- whether women, children, or men.
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