Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought
Cape Town’s drought illustrated that when climate crises become acute, the rich care for themselves irrespective of bigger effects.
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Rob Urie: Why Retaliation Rhymes with Negotiation, US – Russia Edition
On not-well-known elements of the US-Ukraine-Russia conflict, the fecklessness of the left, and the abject stupidity of Western leaders
Read more...Satyajit Das: A Fist Full of Dollars
Two recent books seem unduly complacent about the status of the dollar as reserve currency.
Read more...“Is All Economic Growth Good?”
It can’t be said too often: what most economists call growth is too often what we here call groaf.
Read more...Coffee Break: Trump Deploys National Guard to LA
President Trump deploys National Guard and US Marines to Los Angeles in support of ICE. Gavin Newsom files suit in opposition. Waymos burn.
Read more...The Projected Death Count from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill
Researchers projects that “big beautiful bill” cuts to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.
Read more...Do AI Models Think?
A new paper confirms early doubts that LLMs could ever meet AI boosters’ claims that they were intelligent.
Read more...“Is the US on the Path to Becoming a Failed State?”
Yes, the US is in the midst of multifaceted institutional collapse. But to see Trump as the cause as opposed to an accelerant is misguided.
Read more...A New Gold Rush Is Causing (Potentially) Irreversible Damage to the Amazon Rainforest, Study Warns
As the world is gripped by a new bout of gold fever that shows no sign of abating, the environmental risks for one of the world’s most important ecosystems are rising.
Read more...The 2025 Trade War: Dynamic Impacts Across US States and the Global Economy
Estimating the costs of the Trump trade war to Americans and foreign players.
Read more...“Trump Administration Closes In on Hard-Hitting Sanctions on Russia”
Russia sanctions enthusiasts try to talk over how Ukraine undercut Trump support with Ukraine’s attack on Russian nuclear deterrence assets
Read more...Coffee Break: Trump vs. Musk Omnibus
A scorecard in the Godzilla v. Mothra, um, Trump v. Musk slugfest.
Read more...China’s Rare Earths Weapon Could Kill Europe’s Auto Industry
More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
Read more...Are US Talks With Moscow and Tehran Just Propaganda in the Destabilization Campaigns?
With terrorism and economic warfare, Washington believes it has the “power to coerce.” And negotiations can help create divisions behind enemy lines.
Read more...The Threat From Extreme Centrists
Richard Murphy argues we should focus more on the centrists—”the people who want to maintain the status quo when it’s glaringly obvious that we need change.”
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