Imagine a technology that could facilitate the single greatest expansion of totalitarian power in history in the hands of the European Central Bank and EU Commission. What could possibly go wrong?
Read more...How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
Read more...Even with a settlement in Ukraine and geopolitical thawing in the Arctic, the UK, Baltics and other refusniks can still cause trouble.
Read more...The EU plan to borrow €800 Billion for defense was rejected by the Dutch Parliament. In particular, they objected to the fact that the money will be borrowed by the EU and the more fiscally responsible countries (mainly in the northern states of the Union) would end up paying for it.
Read more...Colorado joins Oregon in green-lighting the very much supervised use of psychecelic mushrooms.
Read more...Republicans find DOGE’s actions are not universally popular. US courts have begun disallowing cancellation of contracts and terminations
Read more...The US pursues the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor while attempting to kill other logistics corridors involving China, Iran, and Russia.
Read more...A few people in each state oversee where and how we get electricity. They’re called public utility commissioners.
Read more...An update on the hard-fought battle between foreign states trying to regulate social media platforms and the broligarchs.
Read more...Today’s Coffee Break: Scientific research on chronic and infectious disease in jeopardy; recent advances in evolutionary biology
Read more...A further discussion of how societal problems that impact medicine and health policy are largely kept out of political discourse.
Read more...This time, it’s not just Wall Street banks that should be worried about the contagion risks of a full-blown banking crisis in Mexico. So, too, should their European counterparts.
Read more...A small win for Social Security beneficiaries in the battle against destruction by DOGE.
Read more...An intriguing connection between retail districts and populism.
Read more...Some Serious Economists make an analytically desperate justification of Europe providing big-ticket economic assistance to Ukraine
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