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The October 25, 1918 edition of the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, a local Connecticut newspaper, reads like it was written during the COVID-19 pandemic. The frontpage reports a decline in cases of the Spanish Flu. [...]

What Naomi Klein dubbed the “shock doctrine” is in full gear. Corporations are salivating over using the coronavirus crisis to further privatize public goods and services, from the U.S. Postal Service to public [...]

Two checklists for monitoring threats of privatization of public goods and services in the age of coronavirus.

A brief pulling together examples of how corporate figures, right-wing organizations, and conservative politicians talk about the role of government—or the lack thereof—in American life.

we can’t forget about the teachers educating kids online, the postal workers sorting our mail, and the millions of other public workers still on the job. [...]

Americans purchase some 50 billion bottles of water every year. That’s more than 95,000 a minute!  All that water comes from our public water systems and groundwater. In other words, the bottled water [...]

Instead of investing in all public schools, the funders behind National School Choice Week want our communities to leave education up to private markets.

We're going to start showing what truly public, democratic control over public goods means and looks like.

You wouldn’t be wrong to blame Transdev for crippling public transportation in Northern Virginia since October. The multinational corporation all but guaranteed a strike by taking every dollar of profit it could out of its [...]