COVID charts for the five problem states, smaller states, and the world ~ Biden trolls health care ~ Trump losing Iowa, Florida, donors ~ The War Party ~ 2016 is Year Zero ~ Rejected absentee ballots ~ Leading indicators, housing, rail ~ Vaccines ~ 1619 Project ~ Cake ~ What is an individual?
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Essential – and Expendable – Labor, in Mexico, for the US
How workers in Mexico are now essential—to U.S. corporations.
Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 Across Age and Income
A six-country look at who is affected by Covid-19 and what there responses tend to be.
Brexit and Inertia
Things have changed very little on the Brexit front, which is not good.
Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little… And Cost So Much?
Ruminations on the nature of work and employment.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2020
New and improved COVID chart ~ Biden’s promises rich donors no new legislation ~ Biden’s empathy ~ Karen Bass in Biden veepstakes ~ Sanders on task forces ~ Glen Ford on fascism ~ Unemployment, manfacturing ~ Climate migration ~ Breonna Taylor ~ Sid the Kitten ~ Taibbi bingo
Indian Farmers Are Staring at Suicide as Modi Government Looks the Other Way
An account from India on farmer suicide and why many could have been prevented.
Pathbreaking Public Pension Case Mayberry v. KKR Is Back From the Dead as Kentucky Attorney General Joins Case
The unexpected resurrection of the pathbreaking pension lawsuit Mayberry v. KKR is a welcome but politically extremely puzzling development.
Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Marketing Is the Original Behavioral Economics
Showing that behavioral economics is just marketing wine in new bottles.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/22/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
How Mitch McConnell’s Hostility to the Unemployment Supplement Puts Ordinary Americans’ Welfare at Risk
Republicans intend to shoot themselves and the economy in the head out of ideological rigidity by killing the unemployment supplement.
