Thomas Neuburger: Tulsi Gabbard’s DNI Nomination
Like Gaetz, Gabbard is a mixed-bag candidate. Should she get your support?
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A Post-Election Reflection on Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
On how the shame resulting from the loss of seen-as-meaningful and well-paid work led many to reject the rule of their PMC betters.
Read more...How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
Read more...Requiem for an Empire
While historian Alfred McCoy made an early and accurate call on the erosion of the US empire, his current readings are a mixed bag.
Read more...Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
With Trump nominations like Matt Gaetz, RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard attracting lots of ire, Mario Rubio is being treated as sound. That’s a mistake.
Read more...Will Online Age Verification Be the Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs?
Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian government recently admitted.
Read more...Forget Snowbirds. These Sunbirds Are Flocking North
Hotter days and higher flood risk are prompting people across the South to consider moving north.
Read more...Links 11/18/2024
Paris and Washington Go Scorched Earth in the Sahel
What does it say about AFRICOM’s counterterrorism mission when nationalized mines increasingly come under attack and the US proxy state of Ukraine is training terrorists the US is supposed to be fighting?
Read more...Book Review: “Caps Lock” (Capitalism and Graphic Design)
Design serves capitalism by devising abstract forms.
Read more...Evaluation of a New International Policy Instrument to Curb Offshore Tax Evasion: Global Information Sharing of Bank Information
Information exchange creates large improvements in tax compliance through repatriation of offshore wealth, self-reporting of offshore financial income, and audit efforts targeted offshore evasion.
Read more...Wall Street Banks Accused of Trying to Sabotage Key Consumer Protection Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants banks to send data of ex-customers to a new bank. Banks are howling. They may have a point.
Read more...Trump’s Speeches Are Chaotic, Rambling and Extremely Effective. Aristotle Can Explain Why
How Trump’s much-lambasted rally speaking style actually deploys a classic rhetorical device.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/15/2024
~ Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts: No bad news; Adolph Reed makes another call; Blame Cannons: The Democrat’s “leftward” turn; Boeing puts a finance guy on the board, layoffs ~
Read more...US EPA Enables Polluting Plastics Plants by Failing to Update Wastewater Limits, Report Says
Yet another example of EPA underperformance, here on the plastics pollution front.
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