Author Archives: Conor Gallagher

Links 1/6/2025

For Many Rural Women, Finding Maternity Care Outweighs Concerns About Abortion Access

Rural residents say no thanks to more abortion availability without better access to comprehensive healthcare.

Links 1/5/2025

Will Russia’s Alleged Downing of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight Overturn the Great Game Board in the Caucasus?

Azerbaijan president’s out of character condemnation of Moscow before facts are in points to changes on the horizon.

The EU Threatens to Cut Itself off From Another of Its Major Natural Gas Suppliers

Issues with supplies from Qatar — the world’s third largest exporter of LNG — could be a major boon for US gas companies.

Will Trump Take On the Housing Cartels?

The DOJ case against RealPage for orchestrating a rental housing price-fixing cartel will tell us a lot about the economic direction of Trump 2.0.

Democracy Dies in the EU: Romania Edition

Is the cancelling of the Romanian election a harbinger of what’s to come in Western “democracies”?

Links 12/23/2024

Climate Change Is Making Plants Less Nutritious − That Could Already Be Hurting Animals That Are Grazers

More hidden than rising seas or heatwaves, long-term changes in the nutritional value of plants could be even more disruptive.

Link 12/22/2024

The US Embrace of Incarceration for the Homeless Is a Win-Win for the Plutocrats

Ignoring the true causes of the homeless crisis while expanding the carceral state helps discipline labor.

Links 12/18/2024

The US Is Left Out in the Cold as China and Russia Develop Arctic

RAND proposes familiar blunders to deal with rival powers’ partnership — one that Washington helped instigate.