The problem with running the government like a business

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From "Marketplace Morning Report": The Rural Healthcare Crisis

“Marketplace Morning Report” host Kimberly Adams is back in the “Make Me Smart” podcast feed to share some reporting from a trip to southwest Alabama. It’s a deep dive on rural health care access — about 700 rural hospitals nationwide are at risk of closure, according to the Cent ...  Show more

From "How We Survive": How to Dim the Sun

Could dimming the sun be the key to cooling things down before the climate crisis worsens? Some scientists say yes, that we can cool the earth by launching tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. It’s a type of solar geoengineering that was once seen as preposterous, meant ...  Show more

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Some More News: Should the Government Be Run "Like A Business"?
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Hi. People say “the government should run more like a business” all the time, but when you think about it, that’s a pretty bad idea precisely because of how businesses work. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Su ...

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Should the government be in the business of business?
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What happens when the federal government owns part of a company? That’s one of MANY questions about federal policy right now, as the Trump Administration aggressively pushes for stakes — and oversight — of major private companies.This week, the White House announced it was taking ...  Show more

The Trump-Musk Doctrine: F-ck Around and Find Out
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For the past month, chaos and confusion have gripped Washington and the federal government. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have served as an iron fist of the Trump administration—ransacking government agencies, lighting fires in various department ...  Show more

The Family Business
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<span>Trump, Inc. takes a step back to </span><span>make sense of the seemingly endless scandals swirling around the White House. They're not random. They fit a pattern and that has</span><span> a precedent. It turns out, Trump is running the government a lot like he's run his ...

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