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Russia’s War with Ukraine: Five Reasons Why Many African Countries Choose to Be ‘Neutral’
Why African countries have chosen to be ‘neutral’ on the issue of Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Read more...The Covid Data Is Making Me Queasy, and CDC Changes and Reform Proposals Aren’t Helping Me Any
The CDC is flying blind. And so are we….
Read more...China’s Flirtation with “Let ‘Er Rip” Goes Hard Into Reverse with Shanghai Two-Phase Lockdown
What to make of Shanghai’s sudden reversal of its plan to forego a Covid lockdown?
Read more...A Round-Up of Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Vaccine and Treatment Research
Encouraging news on the nasal spray vaccine front!
Read more...The Subtle Psychology of Nudges During a Pandemic
For years, the U.S. and U.K. governments embraced the concept of nudges to change social behavior. Then came Covid-19.
Read more...Productivity Dynamics of Working from Home
More on the debate over whether worker productivity takes a hit at home.
Read more...COVID Bailouts Helped Politically Connected Businesses More Than Others – New Research
Firms with political connections, and those owned by large and influential shareholders, benefitted most from allocation of COVID bailout funds.
Read more...‘The World Paid the Price’: Biden’s Outgoing Covid Czar Jeffrey Zients Rebuked Over Failures
The Zients-led Covid response refused to challenge drug company overlords by promoting non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Read more...How the Vehicle Production Nightmare Upended Everything and Why Automakers & Dealers Don’t Want the Old Ways Back
New vehicle sales show how Covid is working out very well for capitalists.
Read more...White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain Kowtows before the Economic Club Of Washington
Ron Klain reports to his bosses.
Read more...The CDC’s New Guidelines on Covid Risk and Masking Send Confounding Signals
The CDC’s move triggered some of the same mixed feelings from the public that the poll uncovered and laid bare a split within the health care community.
Read more...NYC Courts Issue Rules To Ram Through Gun Cases, Under Political Pressure
A new “all hat, no cattle” gun trial plan shows how much Democrats want to look tought on crime without doing the heavy lifting to tackle it
Read more...Failing the Fix: Grading Apple, Dell, Google, Microsoft on the Ease of Repair of Their Products
US PIRG releases a scorecard, ranking the products of major manufacturers on the ease of repair of their products.
Read more...‘Appalling’: Moderna Rebuked Over Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Strategy
‘Billionaire CEO shouldn’t get to choose who lives and who dies,’ said one advocacy group after Moderna’s patent announcement.
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