Ukraine, with certain Western help, has engaged in even more provocative stunts as some NATO leaders threaten escalation.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Repress U., Class of 2024: How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven More Steps
The apparatus behind the explosion of police crackdowns against campus anti-Gaza-genocide protests has been very long in the making.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics, Google’s internal search documentation leaked (!), closing arguments begin in the Bragg/Merchan trial, bookcases as a superb user interface ~
“It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes”
An, erm, novel exercise to present Americans as always on board with good-thinking values like opposing autocratic players.
Are European Politicians Beginning to Worry About Their Own Possible Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?
“If you are encouraging a party to undertake a war crime you become complicit in that crime itself.”
IM Doc on the Accelerating Decline in American Medicine
On the rot in US medicine….and as you might expect, it started from the head.
Lost in the Green Transition: Which Workers Win and Lose
Most green energy boosters skip over which workers will win and lose. This post addresses that oversight.
How One Advice Columnist Handled Our Covid Pandemic, Over Four Years
Carolyn Hax tries to sweep back the tide with a broom.
Book Review: How Plants Experience the World
In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.
‘To Be America’s Friend Is Fatal’: A Current Overview
Nowadays, to be America’s enemy is largely beneficial.
Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
