Apple makes modest concessions on the right to repair. Seems to be less here than meets the eye.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Germany to Ban Use of Glyphosate By End 2023
Germany moves to reduce significantly the use of glyphosate – and ban it outright, starting in 2023.
Summers and the Road to Damascus
Why pushing on a string has never worked: monetary policy has never been robustly effective in promoting economic recovery or growth.
FabScrap Tackles Fashion Waste
FabScrap works with fashion companies to reuse and recycle fashion scraps, thereby mitigating the notorious waste in the fashion industry.
‘Father Is Surgeon’: How Money Talked in USC Admissions Scandal
Defense attorney releases emails documenting just how seriously USC officials weighed family donations in making admissions decisions.
UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder
Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.
As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?
Devastating footage of Dorian damage in the Bahamas: when will the world take meaningful action to arrest climate change?
Brexit: Thar She Blows
Does Parliament’s revolt agaist Boris Johnson on Brexit amount to progress?
Why Does Teen Vogue Need a Labor Column?
Why indeed? Labor issues are certainly as important to the interests of its readers as are many – if not most – of the issues Teen Vogue regularly covers.
R.I.P. Immanuel Wallerstein, Sociologist and “World Systems” Theorist
Immanuel Wallerstein on China, Brazil, racism, and the future.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: BoJo loses majority, Biden, Buttigieg, De Blasio, Gillibrand, Harris,O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Williamson, manufacturing (bad), Tesla, Google. history of Medicare for All, slavery, Kaepernick, glamping on Governor’s Island, British life expectancy, mortality
Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
Nearly 8% of Americans 60 and older were “food insecure” in 2017.
