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Why was the EPA willing to move on Flint and not in Washington County? The difference was public versus private water. If there had been forty houses below that leaking pond, and if Stacey, Beth, and Buzz relied on public water, which, unlike their private wells, was subject to regulation, then they’d have a winning criminal case.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
The Panama Papers indicated that the law firm created some 214,000 shell corporations—legal entities that had no employees, no officers, and no corporate activity except to serve as a clandestine repository for the money of wealthy tax dodgers. Sometimes, the firm put the money into “charities” or “foundations,” which can also be used to hide
... See moreT. R. Reid • A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
In 2014, according to a former DOE official, a federal contractor in Los Alamos, having been told to pack the barrels with “inorganic kitty litter,” had scribbled down “an organic kitty litter.” The barrel with organic kitty litter in it had burst and spread waste inside the cavern. The site was closed for three years, significantly backing up
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Fifth Risk
Beyond Brooke: Brooke Astor and the Cause of Elder Justice
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Robert Reich • How private equity is destroying the labors of love
