NIH funding is a case study of how the Trump wreaking ball will damage medical research and undermine US leadership in medicine.
Read more...The world endured three of top-20 costliest disasters in 2024, its fifth-deadliest wildfire, and three heat waves with over 1,000 deaths
Read more...What’s in a simple name change? It seems like potentially quite a lot.
Read more...Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration push is on a collision course with states’ rights to control policing. Which might prevail/
Read more...Colombia and coffee and flowers, or how successful bullying does not necessarily translate into durable wins.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump’s first week; Democrats for 2028;
Surviving pandemics ~
What happens when a former colonial power like France loses one of the key implements of its control?
Read more...Europe is now largely an American colony where the tech, energy, weapons, and financial industries are making a killing, so it’s no wonder Trump isn’t going to substantially shift US policy.
Read more...Consumers may not suffer from more inflation per official data if Trump imposes tariffs. But that does not mean they won’t be worse off.
Read more...The possibility of early Covid spread is unlikely to mentioned in the newly released CIA assessment of Covid origins, since ths alternative hypothesis clearly contradicts the timeline held today as canon.
Read more...Why US trade and economic threats against Mexico could trigger a financial/currency crisis that may propagate across the Global South
Read more...Why “make government efficient” and cost cutting programs are close to destined to come up short.
Read more...Trump is adept at using his willingness to be wildly inconsistent to destabilize opponents. But he is unduly fond of using blunt instruments like tariffs that he can impose unilaterally, with insufficient consideration of whether they will work all that well, let alone what bad unintended effects they might generate. What Trump has done so […]
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