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Lack of political accountability, after all, is a major reason that American wars are now, to use a recent Pentagon term, “infinite.”

The agencies that separate families, abuse children, and deport innocent people should be just as toxic as Trump’s wall.

The world has since got so used to companies taking over what were long functions of the state that the Trump administration is now considering handing over the Afghan war to them.

Immigrant-detainee suicides indicate that the Stewart Detention Center and ICE are out of step with a trend in corrections to keep seriously mentally ill people out of solitary confinement.

What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place.

Forbes published piece Saturday showing how far privatization is being pushed - nationalize public libraries, along with public schools and the post office. After public backlash, two days later, Forbes took the story down.

Public funding, private management — these four words sum up American-style privatization whether applied to airports, prisons, or elementary and secondary schools.

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His war on Amazon expands to include the right-wing’s campaign to abolish America’s oldest—and still successful—public service.