Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
How student debt is killing its host.
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Melting Ice Could Release Hazardous Waste from Abandoned Cold War Site
Melting Greenland ice will release chemical and some radioactive nasties from an old US Cold War base. Expect more of this sort of thing.
Read more...Dire Consequences of Ignoring Trade in Climate Change Targets: On Track to 3.5 C Temperature Increase by 2100
Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.
Read more...It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Read more...Links 2/24/18
Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...Inside the Trump Admin’s Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret
The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Read more...Links 2/23/18
How Much Do New York Times Reporters Use Anonymous Sources?
An analysis of David Sanger’s work at the New York Times in 2017 gives a sense of how much reporters crib from anonymous “official” sources.
Read more...Tories Double Down on Brexit Fantasies as EU Again Says “Nein”
Yet another Groundhog Day in Brexit land…
Read more...“Cash Must Not Be Made the Scapegoat”
The ECB isn’t keen about the war on cash.
Read more...Links 2/22/18
Treasury Proposes Dubious, Untested Chapter 14 Bankruptcies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Treasury released an ideologically-driven proposal to change Dodd Frank’s resolution authority.
Read more...Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
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