Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists
Some raised eyebrows over a Trump Administration big spend for a possible flu vaccine.
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Predictive Policing AI Is on the Rise − Making It Accountable to the Public Could Curb Its Harmful Effects
Predictive policing experiments continue, despite poor results to date. Can this approach be made non-abusive?
Read more...Links 5/7/2025
Roaring Tariffs: The Global Impact of the 2025 US Trade War
A model of the economic effects of various tariffs war scenarios shows even the likley “least bad” outcome is stilll pretty bad.
Read more...Billionaire Blasts Private Equity’s Continued Grifting as Performance Falls Further
The once-above-criticism private equity industry is on the receiving end of long-overdue takedowns, some of them pointed.
Read more...Links 5/6/2025
Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans
Read more...At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead
More proof at Social Security of the damage done by letting DOGE run wild.
Read more...Trump’s Neverending Tariffs War? Proposes 100% Tariffs on Foreign Movies; De Minimus Exclusion Ends, Hurting the Poor; Financial Times on Tariff Evasion, Official and Via Trans-Shipment
A battlefield update on Trump’s tariff wars.
Read more...Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
Read more...Links 5/3/2025
The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
Read more...Three Mind-Blowing Indie Film Festivals That Show Actual Good Movies
For reader delectation, some promising indie film venues.
Read more...Complacency, Denialism and the Risk of an Economic Trumpocalypse
Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
Read more...What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?
Scientists are investigating how plastic additives and microplastics affect our bodies, and are worried about what they’ve learned so far
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