The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
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Satyajit Das: DOGE – The Accelerant in American Decline
Republicans find DOGE’s actions are not universally popular. US courts have begun disallowing cancellation of contracts and terminations
Read more...Medicine Is Under-Politicised in the UK
A further discussion of how societal problems that impact medicine and health policy are largely kept out of political discourse.
Read more...Judge Blocks DOGE ‘Fishing Expedition’ in Sensitive Social Security Data Systems
A small win for Social Security beneficiaries in the battle against destruction by DOGE.
Read more...The Structural Transformation of the Public Space: High Street Changes and Populism
An intriguing connection between retail districts and populism.
Read more...When Algorithms Take the Field – Inside MLB’s Robo-Umping Experiment
Whether robot umpires would be better for the game is debatable, but they’d be bad news for labor.
Read more...Leadership in the Senate: New Boss Same as the Old Boss?
Following the money shows why Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s shadow will last long beyond his tenure.
Read more...The Price of Monopoly and Oligopoly Power: Why Rising Markups Hurt Innovation and Widen Inequality
More evidence of the cost of monopoly and oligopoly power.
Read more...Business Press Suddenly and Widely Reporting Damage Done by Trump Economic Policies
As the wheels start coming off the Trump economy, the president shows no sign of changing course.
Read more...Neoliberalism and a Healthy Population Are Incompatible
It can’t be said often enough that neoliberalism is unhealthy for children and other living things.
Read more...The Perceived Costs of Business Cycles and Inflation
Quelle surprise! People really hate the uncertainty that comes with business cycles. This bodes ill for the Trump regime.
Read more...Trump’s Address to Congress, Lame Democrat Proposals, Highlight the Absence of Opposition
On the total flaccidity of what passes for opposition to Trump.
Read more...Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’
Yet more punishing the poors, here in the form of unduly punitive clawbacks of accidental Social Security overpayments.
Read more...DOGE: Chaos, Damage, Drama Not Enough to Cover the Stench of Corruption
DOGE is up to even more no good than you imagined.
Read more...Climate Change: Insuring the World of Tomorrow
Leading edge conventional wisdom on the role of insurance as climate disasters increase underestimates the severity of the problem.
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