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Americans Aren’t Traumatized Enough by Gun Violence

More on American resignation and hypocrisy about gun crimes.

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values on December 23, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines

Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?” Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on December 19, 2025 by KLG.

Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador

Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.

This entry was posted in Africa, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values on December 19, 2025 by Yves Smith.

“Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need Ways to Reach Them”

The elites, including those in science, seem to think that their loss of legitimacy can be solved by messaging. Good luck with that.

What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?

Right wing factions are determined to implement extreme agendas. Where are they heading?

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class on December 18, 2025 by Yves Smith.

What to Eat Now, More Than Ever

Marion Nestle has been the essential guide to our “food system” (one trillion dollars a year) in the United States for a long time. Her work is relevant in other such as the United Kingdom that lack a robust food culture, for the most part because it was killed by the food system, not because […]

This entry was posted in Environment, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation on December 17, 2025 by KLG.

Is AI Creating Monsters?

More troubling new sightings on the AI front.

How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown

Did COVID-19 deepen the crises of capitalism and inject a sense of panic into the world’s power struggles?

What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation

Fortunately, an executive order won’t stop states from restricting AI. But expect the Administration to try other routes.

Coffee Break: Science Update, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good, Part the First: Basic Science Has the Answer, Once Again. T cells of the immune system are responsible for the establishment of self-tolerance and adaptive immune function. T cells come from the thymus, which is mammals basically disappears early in life in a process called involution. Understanding how the thymus might regenerate has […]

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on December 12, 2025 by KLG.

Doha Forum in Qatar: Another Node on the Grid of the Machine

Doha Forum in Qatar reveals how today’s global debates feed the larger machine of growth and power, with little space for divergent thinking

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Environment, Middle East, Social values on December 11, 2025 by Curro Jimenez.

Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis

Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind.