Coffee Break: Texas Primary Results Could Flip US Senate
Texas’ primary election results illustrate an ongoing realignment in the Democratic party that gives Dems reason to hope for a US Senate majority.
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Can Sheinbaum Avoid A Death Spiral After the El Mencho Killing?
Why Sheinbaum is likely to find that decapitating cartel leaders is no more likely to succeed than Israeli decapitation has in the Middle East.
Read more...Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us
The bad incentives that lead health insurers not to balk overmuch at outrageous hospital charges.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Algeria and Gaza Parallels
Military dominance is often treated as strategic insurance. Yet history suggests that battlefield superiority can generate domestic political instability when the moral and reputational costs of sustained force penetrate the patron state’s political system. Examining France in Algeria alongside the contemporary U.S.–Israel alliance, this article argues that the decisive variable is not military capacity but legitimation capacity — the ability of a democratic society to sustain political consent under the burdens of prolonged external conflict.
Read more...AI and the Distribution of Income Between Capital and Labour
AI is working according to plan, further enriching the owner class at the expense of workers.
Read more...Spain Risks Wrath of Trump After Denying US Forces Permission to Use Jointly Operated Bases to Attack Iran
Madrid’s words and actions regarding West Asia once again stand in stark contrast with those of the continent’s “Big Three”, Germany, France and the UK.
Read more...Qatar’s LNG Blackout Just Broke the Global Gas Market
More on the global impact of QatarEnergy’s LNG production stoppage and the uncertainty over when it might resume operation.
Read more...Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
How Category III CPT codes for new procedures became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game, to patient detriment.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Yeelen (Brightness) Run Time 1H 38M
Yeleen is a movie about magic and myth.
Read more...Trump Says He’s ‘Entitled’ to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree
Will Trump try to use the war just launched with Iran as part of a scheme to stay in office for another term?
Read more...The Hidden Math Behind Rising Electricity Prices
How high construction and financing costs are likely to lead to even bigger electricity price increases than anticipated now.
Read more...Will the US Try to Pull a False Flag to Justify Escalating Its War on Cuba?
The Trump administration is capable of just about anything these days, especially when it comes to Cuba, Marco Rubio’s most coveted prize of all.
Read more...How X’s Algorithm Shifts Political Attitudes
Not only does brain-pickling by algorithm work, but it has a durable effect by influencing voter information sources over time.
Read more...From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that falling trust in government and financial institutions puts the U.S. economy in peril
Read more...Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
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