NIH funding is a case study of how the Trump wreaking ball will damage medical research and undermine US leadership in medicine.
Read more...Why “make government efficient” and cost cutting programs are close to destined to come up short.
Read more...Trump is adept at using his willingness to be wildly inconsistent to destabilize opponents. But he is unduly fond of using blunt instruments like tariffs that he can impose unilaterally, with insufficient consideration of whether they will work all that well, let alone what bad unintended effects they might generate. What Trump has done so […]
Read more...Struggles over water use and cost are set to intensify as usage outstrips supplies.
Read more...Ideas about how to reduce fire risk in Los Angeles do not appear to go far enough.
Read more...DOGE is dodgy! Who’d have thunk it? Four fast-off-the-block filings seek to bring it to heel.
Read more...A Wall Street Journal column suggests that elite conventional wisdom favors more gutting of medical and home insurance as unduly “socialized”
Read more...Another indictment of America’s claims of superiority: a coming tsunami of homeless elderly
Read more...Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones
Read more...A look at MAHA’s recommendations, per the Casey Means book Good Energy, and why they are an affluent-focused, neoliberal prescription.
Read more...A Trump-Turner housing agenda appears destined to continue the worst aspects of the US approach to affordable housing.
Read more...The pace of rebuilding after the Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire in 2000 bodes ill for the likely speed of Los Angeles reconstruction.
Read more...DOGE depends on Elon Musk’s charismatic authority. That’s a bad thing.
Read more...More and more homeowners are understandably worried about what insurance increases might look like in the face of intensifying climate risks.
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