Driver’s License Suspensions for Failure to Pay Fines Inflict Particular Harm on Black Drivers
Yet another way that biased policing does financial harm to blacks and people of color.
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CalPERS Desperate Response to Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Discussions and Other Abuses Seeks to Drag Case Out as Long As Possible
CalPERS’ intelligence-insulting answer to former board member Jelincic’s transparency lawsuit says that CalPERS is just dragging things out.
Read more...How Is Your Economy?
One of our periodic reader queries as to what they make of the state of the economy based on local sightings.
Read more...Why Colombia Has Erupted in Protest
The pandemic exacerbated intolerable poverty and economic distress in Colombia. As repression mounts, is there any way out?
Read more...Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
Read more...Links 6/2/2021
Lawmakers Are Firing Back At Fossil Fuel Divestors
Red state retaliation! Fossil fuel states will take business away from firms that divest from energy producers.
Read more...The West’s Not Very Hidden Hand in Debt Oppression in Central Asia
How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...SoftBank-Funded Silicon Valley Unicorn Katerra, Which Was to “Transform” the Construction Industry, Collapses
Katerra, one of the rare unicorns with a real or at least plausible business, fell to Covid. Lawsuits will fly.
Read more...From Tragedy to Hesitancy: How Public Health Failures Boosted COVID-19 Vaccine Scepticism
Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
Read more...Link 6/1/2021
Why Did 72% of Israelis Want Attack on Gaza to Continue?
ir Hever discusses how the attacks on Gaza reveal the extreme right-wing radicalization of most of the Israeli Jewish population
Read more...Do Languages Get Simpler When They Get More Complicated?
How and why do languages change?
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