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.
Read more...Major law firms in a storng position to fight Trump diktats about backing conservative interests are paying a price for selling out.
Read more...Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...I was listening to the journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News last week as he talked briefly about his wife’s ongoing cancer treatment. His short gloss was directly on point, and it motivated me to dig deep in my archives on the history of research on breast cancer and how one never knows what […]
Read more...The leaders of the three largest countries in Western Europe (excluding Russia) are acting like tyrants as their economies implode.
Read more...Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
Read more...An update on the worsening shortfalls at food banks as the impact of Federal cuts takes hold.
Read more...Will the Ukraine minerals deal become a tar baby for Trump?
Read more...The Western Empire is dying; but, there are no Western leaders, particularly in Europe, who have any ideas on how to arrest the collapse. The ones we are cursed with can only see one way out and that is by going to war. It is not going to be an easy death.
Read more...An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.
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