Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the United States would have fixed our healthcare system so that job lock and other assorted problems would have vanished. Silly me. I have been eligible for Medicare […]
Read more...Another health industry train wreck in the making is the rising difficulty of staffing so-called eldercare needs, particularly dementia care.
Read more...Bill McKibben published The End of Nature in 1989 when he was in his twenties. His book is generally recognized as the first to address what was then called global warming and now more properly labeled AGW, anthropogenic global warming. I read the book when it was released and it made perfect sense to me […]
Read more...Better late than never: states are starting to file suits over ICE thuggery.
Read more...Richard Murphy look at the growing number of high-paid professionals in the UK are choosing to work fewer hours.
Read more...Trump’s plan for US military spending of $1.5 trillion puts the military at the core of his presidency and may signal a move to all-out war.
Read more...“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” says one senator.
Read more...A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help…and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
Read more...Portland mayor Keith Wilson called on ICE to halt operations pending a probe of its latest shootings. That won’t happen. So what do cities do?
Read more...The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor is back from the dead, but what of all the issues with an imperial strategy that relies on data centers and desalination in a hotbox ready to blow.
Read more...One journalist called it “absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government.”
Read more...Quelle surprise! Smartphone fixation is producing conversation-deficient children.
Read more...Part the First: Ultra-Processed Foods and Addiction. Big Ag and Big Food may finally have a problem with their big moneymaking products. We have discussed UPFs here several times before. They fill the center aisles of grocery stores in much of the Anglophone world. This article in Scientific American adds to wave of information coming […]
Read more...Neoliberal free market ideology was always a fantasy. But what comes next given the late stage capitalism breakdown?
Read more...Liposuction deaths at a private-equity-backed spa chain, after other liposuction deaths, fail to elicit responses like curbs on advertising.
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