Experiencing Natural Disasters Increases Partisan Disagreement on Climate Change
Those experiencing a climate-change-induced disaster wind up having more polarized beliefs about the role of human action.
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Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Read more...Politics and Medicine, Medicine and Politics
On the long-standing US conflict between freedom and the rise in the scientific and professional practice of medicine, with that, authority
Read more...Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
A wide-ranging overview of the truce in Lebanon and what might come next.
Read more...Trump Threatens BRICS Countries With 100% Tariffs if They Ditch the Dollar
Why Trump’s dedollarization tariff threat is much more bark than bite.
Read more...Self-Censorship and the Ad Hominem Inference
Identifying a key mechanism that fosters self censorship.
Read more...Make America Healthy Again: An Unconventional Movement That May Have Found Its Moment
The MAHA movement capitalizes on many of the nonconventional health concepts that have been darlings of the left, such as promoting organic foods and food as medicine.
Read more...Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of “Generative Biology”‘ Colonization at COP16
The COP16 biodiversity conference included Big Tech pushing black box “generative biology” AI-created DNA and related financial markets
Read more...Rob Urie: Update on US Missiles, Ukraine, and Russian Response
More on the Russian counter to US/NATO long-range missile strikes into Russia and where the escalation threatens to go.
Read more...Inflation Re-Accelerates Despite Plunging Gasoline Prices as “Core Services” PCE Price Index Hits 7-Month High
Core services inflation is the biggie and going the wrong way. The Fed is already talking down the pace of rate cuts.
Read more...Israel Agrees to Ceasefire in Lebanon After Ground Invasion Fails
An initial look at the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
Read more...How Trump Attorney General Pick Pam Bondi Did Favors for Donors and Gift-Givers in Florida
Another deep dive into Pam Bondi’s impressive record of corporate cronyism.
Read more...Monetary Policy in Response to Tariff Shocks
If the Trump tariff scheme weakens the economy enough, the Fed would do better to ease rather than tighten even if inflation increases.
Read more...Taxpayers Spend 22% More Per Patient to Support Medicare Advantage – The Private Alternative to Medicare That Promised to Cost Less
How Medicare Advantage, with less coverage than traditional Medicare via gatekeeping and thin networks, is a bad deal for taxpayers too.
Read more...Trump’s Inflation-Stoking 25% Mexico and Canada Tariff Scheme
Trump’s latest tariff threat is quickly getting a lot of well-warranted criticism.
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