Bootleggers and Baptists in the U.S. Steel Deal
Progressives and environmental groups have teamed up with a rival steelmaker to lobby against the U.S. Steel deal.
Progressives and environmental groups have teamed up with a rival steelmaker to lobby against the U.S. Steel deal.
The proposal brings to mind the classic "bootleggers and Baptists" theory in which both moralists and competitors oppose a substance.
Did the Alabama legislature's response to a controversial state supreme court decision give a special interest special treatment?
New York City's new zoning ordinance would give the city an effective veto over proposed hotel projects in much of the city.
Soda tax moralizers are easy to find, but where are our sweetened-beverage bootleggers?
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