State Greenlights NYC Evicting More Migrant Families From Shelters
Migrants in facilities overseen by the city Department of Homeless Services will start receiving notices they must leave after 60 days
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What Should You Do to Prepare for the Climate Change Storm?
Do you stand your ground or seek out a climate haven? Some resources to help you decide.
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Robots and Wage Polarisation
Quelle surprise! Introducing robots into workplaces slows wage growth, particularly among factory labor.
Read more...The Status of Europe’s Autonomous Movements
The EU leads in managing autonomous and separatist movements in its states, but non-EU countries can be more vulnerable to outside interference.
Read more...Washington Post Report on Russia-Ukraine Negotiation to End Energy System Attacks: An Admission of Russian Long-Term Weakness or More Complex Calcuation?
Trying to make sense of a Washington Post story depicting Russia as willing give up its best weapon, its electrical war, for very little.
Read more...Class Traitors Casey and Calley Means Describe How Big Food and Big Pharma Knowingly Make Americans Unhealthy to Tucker
An important Tucker Carlson interview on how Big Food and Big Pharma are profit from worsening American health outcomes.
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The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana
Read more...Zombie Wells: A $280 Billion Problem the U.S. Can’t Ignore
Supposedly shuttered but toxic oil wells are yet another large-scale cost of the Western addiction to cheap energy.
Read more...Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign To Gut Planned Parenthood
How disputed allegations against Planned Parenthood have given a big boost to the anti-reproductive-control juggernaut.
Read more...Benchmarking the Coming Democratic Convention Protests in Chicago
Democratic convention protests are coming! How do we judge whether they are a damp squib or moved the needle a smidge?
Read more...Confronting Low Fertility Rates and Population Decline
Some practical ideas for how to manage population shrinkage. But will neoliberalism get in the way?
Read more...The Rat Race for Research Funding Delays Scientific Progress
How bad incentives and funders’ love of glitz lead to poor scientific research outcomes and demotivated academics.
Read more...Americans Love Free Speech, Survey Finds − Until They Realize Everyone Else Has It, Too
A new American norm: “Free speech for me, but not for thee!”
Read more...Saving in Itself Is Merely Negative
Debunking yet another appealing-sounding but elite-serving idea, here the premise that savings is always good and more is better.
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