American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.
Read more...Trump’s urban takeovers reveal a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.
Read more...A former Fed economist explains in detail how the central bank has been using dodgy accounting to hide losses from impermissible subsidies
Read more...The US cannot achieve its goals in the world by traditional economic or military means, so it increasingly prefers chaos and destruction. How do the other powers stop it?
Read more...Part the First: How Do You Awaken Sleeping Cancer Cells. Short answer: Inflammation. Speaking from experience, anyone who have ever been treated successfully for cancer never fully relaxes after his or her tumor or condition is resolved. Formerly metastatic cells can remain dormant for a long time. Recent research has shown how they are reawakened. […]
Read more...How South America and the Global South generally are selling out their automony and the promise of multipolarity for Big Tech convenience
Read more...Trump has sent a wrecking ball through US healthcare. Can states team up to preserve some measure of the old normal?
Read more...In the United States, the aim of the Current Administration is to support something called “gold-standard science.” Their clear implication is that American scientists have been publishing something less than the gold standard – perhaps silver or bronze, or maybe even brass, when gold is the standard of the day (here and here). We have […]
Read more...Trump budget whackage will further degrade the quality of official statistics. And that really does matter.
Read more...As safety nets shred, some Christian churches provide key services to the poor while others use the desperation to build political power
Read more...In her first six months, Donald Trump’s second agriculture secretary has altered the course of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She says prosperity is ‘just around the corner.’ But staffing cuts and restricted research could have long-lasting impacts.
Read more...What fun! Billionaires running around all hair on fire over their inabilty to do much to check Mamdani.
Read more...The precarity of the undocumented worker is the future of US labor relations.
Read more...ump’s trade, tariffs and tax schemes are already starting to come apart. And he seems to have no Plan B.
Read more...Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
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