Trump’s Neo-Stalinist Pentagon Photo Purge
Controlling the future by controlling the past, here by censorship of narrative-busting photos.
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Trump’s Homeland Security Council Sets Its Sights on Zohran Mamdani
A window into the thuggish efforts to sabotage Zohran Mamdani bid for New York City mayor, here by the Department of Homeland Security.
Read more...The Rule of Law Is Key to Capitalism − Eroding It Is Bad News for American Business
It is a sad sign of the extent of libertarian propaganda that an apple-pie-and-motherhood issue like the rule of law needs defending.
Read more...Trust in Science, Public Health, and Politics: Lessons from COVID-19
Shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a worldwide catastrophe, my much better half asked me how long I thought this would this last. Based on my then 45 years of biomedical research experience I replied, “Three years.” I was wrong. That was more than five years ago, when the refrigerated makeshift morgues were parked on […]
Read more...Reverse Lysistrata: More on Men Cooling on Dating, Sex and the Role of Societal Denigration
More on how young men are having a hard time finding dates and romantic partners, and why this matters.
Read more...Can Unions Really ‘Lead the Resistance to Authoritarianism?’
Probably not in their current form, but there’s a counterintuitive argument that we should be cheering for the Supreme Court to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board in order to revitalize labor.
Read more...Cow Most Sacred
Why military spending remains untouchable.
Read more...The Millionaire Exodus Myth
Millionaires are not fleeing countries to escape taxes.
Read more...US Shale Can’t Scale If No One’s Left to Work It
A form of class warfare hits shale players Too few young workers like the industry and its long-term career prospects.
Read more...The Senate GOP’s Great Western Land Heist
A buried budget clause could force the largest public land sell-off in modern history, without a vote, a hearing, or a warning.
Read more...ICE’s Rap Sheet Grows With Continuing Defiance of Congressional Oversight at Facilities, Attempt to Write Its Own Rules
ICE is becoming even more high-handed in its defiance of legally mandated Congressional oversight rights.
Read more...What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.
Read more...The US Is Taxing the World’s Poorest — and Is Disguising It as Regulation
Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.
Read more...What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
In Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy presents historical foes of monopoly, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism
Read more...Generative AI in Universities: Grades Up, Signals Down, Skills in Flux
Yet more confirmation that student use of AI comes as the expense of skill acquisition. So why get educated?
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