Arguments have already started over the implications of a new study that finds that gun injuries fall sharply when the NRA convention is on.
Read more...Market economy to you: “All your time are belong to us”
Read more...More evidence that CalPERS is making a hugely important and costly decision in a cavalier, even reckless, manner.
Read more...Even in the US, which so far has been more lenient toward cryptocurrencies than China, the noose is tightening. Top Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has decided that trying to defy the law, in terms of not complying with a IRS summons requiring it to turn over information about customers who had engaged in more than $20,000 […]
Read more...The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
Read more...The New York Times today gives an extremely cautious and narrow defense of traditional, now denigrated as “dumb” devices: In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better. It listed a grand total of five examples: A wristwatch vs. Apple Watch A car mount vs. a smart car console An alarm clock vs. […]
Read more...Unfortunately, Corbyn finally stepping into the Brexit fray looks like different cherry picking and potentially even more political upheaval.
Read more...How student debt is killing its host.
Read more...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...Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.
Read more...How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Read more...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...Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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