Grassroots organizations are helping rebuild North Carolina communities after Hurricane Helene. And how about FEMA?
Read more...Trump tariffs are coming! What does that mean?
Read more...KLG reflects on how Marx’s Capital was an important primer for him in understanding capitalism, and why it remains a seminal guide.
Read more...Some crystal-ball gazing into what four year of Trump or Harris would portend.
Read more...A big source of election anxiety and conflict is that both parties give only lip service to rising inequality and fraying social safety nets.
Read more...A study of China’s shipbuilding industrial policy finds big market share gains did not produce domestic welfare benefits.
Read more...On the oddly muted reporting of FEMA’s performance in Helene, and why that matters for future disaster responses.
Read more...New institutional economics won another “Nobel prize”, claiming that good institutions and governance ensure growth, equity & democracy.
Read more...More examples of how medicine, at least as practiced in the US, is going off the rails.
Read more...The old normal is rigid and destructive to humans and the planet. Heterodox ideas offer some hope, but will they be sufficient?
Read more...Another warning about the dangers of AI-supercharged synthetic biology.
Read more...Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...“History for an urban, globalized, and divided planet, written from a position of empathy for the all-too-human dreams of fossil-fueled escape that now lie in ruins.”
Read more...US presidential candidates promise policy choices but have little room to manoeuvre. Ergo, politics turns into a contest like American Idol
Read more...A new report, Black Box Biotech, warns of the biodiversity and error risk of AI engineered proteins, aka synthetic or “generative biology”.
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