In her first six months, Donald Trump’s second agriculture secretary has altered the course of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She says prosperity is ‘just around the corner.’ But staffing cuts and restricted research could have long-lasting impacts.
Read more...Even where FEMA identifies a flood risk, the overreliance on historical data and political influence leads to maps that don’t fully represent true risk.
Read more...On top of the leverage bombs in the US and other financial systems, the embrace of crypto, specifically stablecoins, is another systemic risk
Read more...Increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.
Read more...It seems no idea is too stupid not to get a following. This one is to recreate Silicon Valley Bank, a standout failure.
Read more...A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy
Read more...A warning to US readers on the further degradation in medical training and resulting crapification of care.
Read more...Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.
Read more...Health insurers are behaving even more badly, yet advocates do not seem to be pushing for the remedy of external appeal for denials.
Read more...More on RFK, Jr. making shit up but attempting to wrap it in the mantle of science.
Read more...Researchers projects that “big beautiful bill” cuts to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.
Read more...The precarity of the undocumented worker is the future of US labor relations.
Read more...More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
Read more...Plastic mulch pollution may linger for centuries
Read more...In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financiers.
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