A sobering look at the further decline in mental health among the young.
Monday, September 15, 2025
MAGA Cosplayers Seize Capitol While Cops Flounder
How could a rabble occupy the Capitol despite months of fulminations about a Trump coup and a rally date announced well in advance?
Coming Attraction: IPCC’s Upcoming Major Climate Assessment
Another set of blockbuster IPCC reports are in the works. What to expect?
“Build Back Better” Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
Why Biden’s “Build Back Better” could make a big difference for what was once the American middle class….charitably assuming he meant it.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/06/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. My old iPad with the cracked screen finally failed today. I had kept on using it, and not the new one I bought after the first crack appeared, because I never updated the credit credit card number on it, and after a bank takeover, that card is no longer valid, […]
The End Of The Embargo Against Qatar
The rollback of the Qatar embargo is a small positive development as Team Trump is exiting.
Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021
Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.
You Don’t Want to Imagine an Ocean Without Coral Reefs—But You Might Have To
The latest reading on the slow-motions deaths of coral reefs.
2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/05/2021
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The ‘Gateway Drug to Corruption and Overspending’ Returns to Congress. Are Earmarks Really That Bad?
Democrats go for more better pork, aka earmarks.
Workers’ Wages: The Next Frontier in the Financialization of Just About Everything
As the virus crisis bites deeper and deeper into workers’ wages and household finances, big money is pouring into workplace finance initiatives.
