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A close reading of Elizabeth Warren’s new health care “plan.”

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, undecided voters, impeachment, Kavanaugh, Democrat debates, manufacturing, Wells Fargo, Uber and cash, Peter Thiel, Softbank, robot cars, the Amazon, the Santee Delta, Jeffrey Epstein, UAW, Carpenters Union, amazing quantum algorithm

A patient could believe his or her emergency air transport was taken care of, only to face a rude awakening when the bill came.

Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped!, a new book on Uber, draws fundamentally false conclusions about the company.

London meetup, 3rd October, with Clive, Richard Smith, and Jerri-Lynn.

“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”

Perspectives on the Harlan County train block protest as direct action, issues with the protest camp, Kentucky politics, and a “just transition” from coal.

The column uses data from French elections since 1993 to show that an increase in spending per voter has consistently increased a candidate’s vote share.

People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally undemocratic.

Sanders’ and Warren’s supposedly wild eyed ideas of cancelling student debt and making college tuition free get a thumbs up in a new poll.

Today’s Water Cooler: The Democrat debates, with drinking games and Biden on record-players, impeachment, think tanks, Robeson County, jobless claims, consumer sentiment, retail sales, consumer price index, Boeing, Lenovo Yoga laptops, feelings

The messy politics of the 48 state Google anti-trust investigation.