Author Archives: Yves Smith
Pandemic Erects Barriers for Prized Bloc of Voters in Nursing Homes, Senior Facilities
How voters in retirement facilities are being disenfranchised.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...‘A Definite and Sustained Increase’: Europe Leads Record Single-Day Worldwide Covid-19 Infection Surge
Europe reported nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday—more than in the U.S., India, and Brazil, the world’s Covid-19 case leaders
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Says She’s Not in Charge and Lies to the Board About Receiving a Warning from the Fair Political Practices Commission
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost doesn’t even bother to lie well.
Read more...New York City Seeks to Shortchange Teachers on $900 Million of Back Pay
Another sign of increasing budget problems in New York City.
Read more...Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?
Read more...Links 10/8/2020
Latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry Demonstrates How the US Patent Office Screws Inventors
A high profile example of the train wreck called the US patent process.
Read more...Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order
Trump believes he protected people with pre-existing conditions and eliminated surprise billing via an executive order. He did not.
Read more...Down to the Wire, Last Chance for Our 2020 Fundraiser!
Last call! Help make our 2020 fundraiser the best ever!
Read more...Countdown!
We met one of our final goals! One left to beat! Will you help make this the best fundraiser ever?
Read more...Closing Hours of the 2020 Fundraiser, About to Hit Our New $ and Donor Targets!
Please give in the home stretch to make this fundraiser a smashing success!
Read more...Bleak Views of Melting Antarctic Ice, From Above and Below
Two troubling recent studies clarify projections of glacial ice loss, sea-level rise, and the need to act on climate.
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