Solving the Climate Crisis Means Ending Our Addiction to Economic Growth
COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...A detailed account of the Dublin riot and the related political and social undercurrents in Ireland by our esteemed PlutoniumKun
Read more...UK politicians’ ambivalence over a Gaza ceasefire shows how little they learned from the Troubles
Read more...Michael Hudson explains why Netanyahu’s invocation of Samuel is a rank distortion of Mosaic covenants and the implications of that episode.
Read more...A look at Newsom’s recent record in California – from attacks on the working class to his subservience to wealth – show why he’s so popular among the forces that run the Democratic Party.
Read more...Older Americans and sometimes their family members are being wrung dry by rising elder care costs and shabby government support.
Read more...The ranks of doctors who specialize in care of the elderly is shrinking. Why?
Read more...Major companies like Walmart create poverty via obscenely low pay, most recently confirmed via a UN special rapporteur.
Read more...The role of ideology in bad Covid science and its amplification.
Read more...A sane look at the handwringing over today’s supposedly unique and dangerous misinformation.
Read more...MMT economist Bill Mitchell on the rise of neoliberal ideology across the Anglosphere and how it curbed labor.
Read more...A useful debunking of the consultant-enriching, board-distracting, and potentially regulatory-underming con known as ESG investing.
Read more...Tax breaks to the rich mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more calls to gut programs like Social Security that protect ordinary citizens
Read more...A look at how different communities are deploying opioid settlement cash. But no clear data on policing versus treatment.
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