Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Whittier, Alaska, copes with a pandemic and climate change, and confronts the daunting prospects of a Prince Williams Sound tsunami.
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Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...China and US: Stumbling into War?
China and the US are doing an awful lot of chest-poking, and if anything, it’s getting worse under Biden. Could this sparring lead to war?
Read more...Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.
Read more...Getting a Prescription to Die Remains Tricky Even as Aid-in-Dying Bills Gain Momentum
Right to die laws are scarce in the US, and too often a muddle where they
Read more...We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History
Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.
Read more...Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
Read more...Rising Temperatures, Melting Ratings
Taking a stab at how global warming will affect bond ratings in the intermediate and long term.
Read more...Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
Read more...Medea Benjamin: 10 Things Wrong With Biden’s Foreign Policy
Medea Benjamin explains why the Biden administration seems firmly entrenched behind Trump’s walls of hostility.
Read more...End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
More on the vaccine atrocities perpetrated by Big Pharma, aided and abetted by first world countries.
Read more...Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Read more...New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools, Based on Outdated, Cherry-Picked, and Misinterpreted Data, Put Students, Teachers, and Communities at Risk
Pushing to reopen schools based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence.
Read more...Scoring the $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan and Earlier Covid Relief Programs
How to do a better job of getting relief to those who need it.
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