2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics: (1) New swing state polling, Hillary Clinton on the ignorance of youth, Trump will love jail, potential nasal spray, and you’ll never guess from whom. ~
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics: (1) New swing state polling, Hillary Clinton on the ignorance of youth, Trump will love jail, potential nasal spray, and you’ll never guess from whom. ~
Read more...Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.
Read more...At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale.
Read more...How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.
Read more...There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
Read more...How trade liberalization cut Africa’s modest production capacities, industry and food security.
Read more...A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Read more...More evidence on cancer clusters in the Corn Belt, and the difficulty of rallying official interest and help.
Read more...The architecture of Bragg’s case, and the state of play of its various elements.
Read more...The latest in KLG’s arc of posts on the theory and practice of science in the so-called modern world.
Read more...While media focus is on pro-Palestine protests in the US, anger in North Africa and Western Asia could boil over
Read more...In a sharp departure from established practice, Milei admits that the Falkland Islands, or Malvinas, are, to all intents and purposes, British. And he is no rush to change that. For most Argentines, Margaret Thatcher is a controversial figure, to put it mildly. It was she who, as British Prime Minister, ordered the torpedoing of […]
Read more...