The pending continuing resolution has provision that hand key Congressional spending and oversight to Trump. Call to oppose it.
Read more...Labour goes all in for cutting social spending, first for the disabled, almost certainly with the excuse that it’s needed to fund rearming.
Read more...This week’s Europe/UK focused Coffee Break: German and Romanian election chicanery, UK snooping, why Western pols believe Ukraine can win.
Read more...DOGE is up to even more no good than you imagined.
Read more...The backstory of how the EU has come to fall short of its considerable potential.
Read more...Cuts to the Social Security Administration are cuts to Social Security. Raise hell with your Congresscritters about this looting
Read more...Why the GENIUS Act does not live up to its pretenses of making stablecoins safe, thus setting the stage for a Federal bailout.
Read more...Our first UK/Europe-focused Coffee Break, which examines Europe’s self-inflected energy cost uncompetitiveness
Read more...We warned that crypto was closely aligned with criminal activity. The open grift of the new “strategic” Trump fund proves that case.
Read more...Weather and climate research are yet more examples of how the DOGE slash and burn can and probably will do real harm.
Read more...The US future of more erratic power supplies comes nearer as officials dither over what to do about a creaky grid.
Read more...The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, like quite a few others, looks for ways to save democracy from itself, as in rule by voters.
Read more...What attack surfaces does DOGE present?
Read more...Venture capitalists and tech execs strengthen control over Democrat-controlled California while they do the same at the national level under Trump’s GOP.
Read more...How shareholder activism, which once helped check self-serving managements, has become the province of hedge fund extortionists.
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