“From ‘Mail-Order Brides’ to ‘Passport Bros,’ the International Dating Industry Often Sells Traditional Gender Roles”
A weird glamorization of sexpattery as “international dating”.
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Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis
Greystar is penalized 0.002 percent of the $300 billion worth of real estate it manages, and must stop using collusion software—maybe.
Read more...Colorado Is Pumping the Brakes on First-Of-Its-Kind AI Regulation to Find a Practical Path Forward
AI: too big to be regulated?
Read more...Why Did Britain Stop Making?
And now how exactly does it plan to ready for war?
Read more...Coffee Break: CDC – Vaccines – Autism, Oh, My!; Wellness; Prioritized Science; Very Ancient Art; and MAGA
Part the First: CDC Finally “Decides” that Vaccines Cause Autism. In news that will surprise absolute nobody, while pleasing some and causing despair in others, CDC says the mountains of data that show vaccines do NOT cause autism is not evidence-based: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday publicly reversed its stance that […]
Read more...From the Narrative Collapse, a New World Will Emerge: Will It Be Different?
In the information age, it is difficult to make sense of events. Endless amounts of information do not necessarily coalesce into a coherent narrative with explanatory meaning. The breakdown of the international order is precipitating the emergence of different narratives that engender competing truths. The German writer Goethe said: “When eras are on the decline, […]
Read more...A War Against Children? ADHD Drugs Become DeFacto Gateway for Many to Multi-Medication “Treatments” Despite Dearth of Clinical Evidence for Use
The Wall Street Journal tells a sobering and well documented story of how ADHD Rxs in the young often lead to even more drug administration.
Read more...Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
An overview of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth explains the core findings of MMT. and how debt hysteria serves the rich, not the public.
Read more...The Making of the MAGA Right
As the old baseball saying goes, sometimes “You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.” This became especially true since Curt Flood opened the floodgates to free agency more than fifty years ago when he refused to be treated as disposable property by the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, one August A. Busch, Jr. […]
Read more...“European Nations Have No Choice but to Raise Retirement Ages – Our Case Study Shows Why”
Citizens in EU states have been rebelling against social program cuts, like pension reforms. Are changes in the retirement age necessary?
Read more...“NatSec Democrats” Go to Governors Offices in Preparation for 2028 POTUS Runs
Spanberger in Virginia and Sherrill in New Jersey are part of the party’s spook network pushing the ratchet wheel ever rightward.
Read more...SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
The biggest anti-hunger program in the U.S. is set to lose over $187 billion between now and 2034.
Read more...Coffee Break: Unstable Climate-Unstable Economy, Gambling and the Decline of Sport, the Last of the Great Men of Molecular Biology, and SNAP
Part the First: Financial Stability and Climate Instability. Or, could a climate-related shock trigger a recession? This is a question that could be asked only by an economist, or two, as in Advancing research on financial stability and climate-related financial risk, an editorial last week in Science: Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, […]
Read more...More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Read more...Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel
The ideological currents behind U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s war on Palestine are the same: Yoram Hazony’s neo-nationalism
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