The Blackwater founder previously pushed the Trump administration to privatize the Afghan war. Blackwater founder Erik Prince on Wednesday faced fresh accusations of being a war profiteer in response to reporting that he’s charging $6,500 per person for a seat on an evacuation flight out of Kabul. The reporting by the Wall Street Journal comes amid ongoing evacuations from Afghanistan of civilians, […]
The vote was followed by a threat from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to strip committee assignments from Republicans who sit on bipartisan select committee. House Republicans drew rebuke Wednesday for their near unanimous vote against the establishment of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Why did so many […]
“The steep price of a high-speed connection is the primary barrier—a hard truth that flies in the face of the wild claims broadband-industry lobbyists make about prices getting better for internet users.” As federal lawmakers held a hearing Thursday on broadband equity, a new report details how the internet service provider industry, through hiked prices and disappearing […]
“Cleaner and lower-cost wind and solar, coupled with battery storage, will drive fossil fuels out of the market.” The nation’s transition from dirty to renewable energy is “nearing exponential growth”—a shift set to usher in “transformative” impacts within a handful of years. So declares the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) in its “U.S. […]