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An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery

Russia is considering restricting commodities exports such as uranium to what it has called “unfriendly” countries.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala’s earrings; About those cats… ; Do Covid tests work for the latest variants? Not immediately; Boeing should be kicked out of the Dow ~

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The arguably better official measure of US poverty says the poor are getting poorer.

A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.

Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.

A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.

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Volatility is the central feature of this election, despite all efforts to keep things stable. It follows that the debate will be volatile.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala: Change vs. more of the same; Melania intervenes; Trump’s ear, examined; Winds carry potential pathogens over great distances. ~

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