More American Cities Considering Free Public Transportation
In fits and starts, the idea of free public transportation is getting more of a following in the US.
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The Expanding Role of Medicaid in US Health Care
Medicaid is more of a heavyweight than you might have realized.
Read more...Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
licymakers are funding techno-fixes like carbon capture, when studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
Read more...Ice Melt In the Pipeline
The IPCC has been soft-pedaling realistic, as in alarming, prospects for rapid ice melt and near-term ocean rises.
Read more...Big Pharma Uses Fuzzy Math to Discredit Discount Drug Program
r 340B, a program granting cheaper medicines to nonprofit healthcare patients, drug industry innumeracy is only rivaled by its greed.
Read more...Subjective Well-Being During Spain’s Decline: Evidence from Crusade Bulls
Sales of Crusade Bulls, a form of indulgence that Spain preserved after they were in decline elsehwere, may shed light on other social issues
Read more...As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises
Dangerous levels of arsenic in well water is another symptom of falling water tables and depleted aquifers.
Read more...Links 5/24/2023
Cleaning Up After the North Sea Oil Industry Will Cost Billions – But Nobody Wants to Pay
The North Sea joins a long list of extraction industry unpunished negligence.
Read more...City’s Newest Migrants Head Underground Looking to Survive
Migrants are finding it harder to get by in already difficult roles like illegal street vendor work in the subways.
Read more...Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
Can comedy defeat climate inertia?
Read more...Links 5/23/2023
The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
Read more...Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Read more...US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
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