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Estimating the scope of corruption in the college admissions process.

Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs, Buttigieg, Gabbard, Harris, Sanders, Warren, Williamson, El Paso shootings, services, Walmart v. Amazon, Tesla, Uber and Lyft, AMD, Elsevier, the limits of reforestation, Fortnite, life as an uber driver, Andrea Dworkin, organizing meetings, speech and culture

Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.

A personal retrospective on money in US politics.

Military contractors have used the threat of US job cuts to extract more dough from American taxpayers….and then cut US jobs.

The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.

Now, after nearly half a century, the verdict on neoliberalism is in.

The Trump Administration really is making things up as it goes along.

Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.

Today’s Water Cooler: Taxing foreign capital, fundraising maps for all Democrats, climate change forum upcoming, Gabbard, Harris, Sanders, Warren, Yang, DSA convention, employment situation, factory orders, consumer sentiment, electric scooters, Greenland ice sheet, funny words

An update on what Trump has, or more accurately, has not, done for workers.