China’s Government Is Targeting ‘Sissy’ Men, with Devastating Consequences
Good old fashioned men are all that China wants these days.
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It’s Time to Expand the COVID-19 Exception to All American Health Care
The Feds throwing money at some parts of Covid care is arguably a precedent to build on. But the US is not exceptional that way.
Read more...How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
How highly unequal asset ownership diminishes social mobility and institutionalizes modern-era feudalism.
Read more...UN Report: The World’s Farms Stretched to ‘A Breaking Point’
UN: Climate-stressed, pollution-degraded farms system must adopt sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion by 2050.
Read more...CORBEVAX, a New Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine, Could Be a Pandemic Game Changer Globally
Corbevax, a protein subunit vaccine, is easier to produce than current Covid vaccines. But short duration of immunity remains a concern.
Read more...The World’s Food Systems Are in Crisis, and Big Agribusiness Is at Its Heart
Public finance plays a large role in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local food producers
Read more...The Central Asian Alphabet Issue
The oft-ignored role of an alphabet in politics and identity.
Read more...Our Rolling Civil War
The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.
Read more...More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”
A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.
Read more...Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
Read more...Covid Crisis Hits New York City Schools
With students and teacher absences high, New York City schools are buckling under Omicron. A harbinger for other US cities?
Read more...Calling Trump ‘Just a Warm-Up Act,’ Professor Warns of Democratic Collapse in US
Why it is a little too pat to blame the right for the sorry state of democratic processes in the US.
Read more...My “Wealth Effect Monitor” & “Wealth Disparity Monitor” for the Fed’s Money-Printer Economy: December Update
The wealth gap rises: Billionaires got more billions, the bottom half of Americans got peanuts and inflation.
Read more...Manchin Takes Aim at Build Back Better, but His Real Focus is on West Virginia
What does Manchin want?
Read more...Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic
Ah, the distaste for urban squalor, um, traffic. Why do a lot of people want to turn cities into something else?
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