Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier?
Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.
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“Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”
Trump asked the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to determine whether to use the Insurrection Act to secure the southern border
Read more...Your Face, Your Passport: The Hi-Tech, Dystopian Future of International Travel
“E-gates… open the possibility of harvesting the travel data and biometrics of the population across our lifetimes.”
Read more...Tariffs, the Dollar, and Equities: High-Frequency Evidence from the Liberation Day Announcement
Sales of US equities by foreign owners played a meaningful role in the falll of the dollar after the Trump tariff rampage began.
Read more...‘Only Hellfire’: Israel Says Lifesaving Aid, Troop Withdrawal Off the Table for Gaza
Israel defense ministers are chuffed about their genocide and and war crimes, now via starvation.
Read more...Trump’s Tariffs Just Torched His Own Energy Agenda
How Trump tariffs are whacking shale development and in turn, Trump’s prized energy dominace strategy.
Read more...Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China
The U.S. goes all in on the burn-it-all-down strategy.
Read more...Tariffs and Trade Wars: Failing to Learn from the Great Depression
A detailed discussion of the damage done by Smoot Hawley to illustrate why tariffs typically do more harm than good
Read more...Who Will Pay the Highest Price for Trump’s Postal Service Privatization Push?
“Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible.”
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Space War
Our warfare focused Coffee Break: the dangers of militarizing space
Read more...7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
Read more...Quelle Surprise: Three Days After Milei Signs Another Unpayable IMF Bailout, US Treasury Secretary Pays Argentina a Call
The US has one clear goal in sight: to get Argentina to sever its ties with China, particularly by terminating a long-standing currency swap agreement
Read more...Here’s What’s in the New Rough Draft U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal
A purported list of proposed US terms for its negotiations with Iran looks to go well beyond what Iran could accept.
Read more...Keynesian Militarism or Wishful Thinking?
European NATO members hope Keynes’ magic will make their newly adopted militarism feasible. A sanity check.
Read more...Coffee Break – Across the Pond : Lights Out Edition
Democracy is dying in Europe as governments become more authoritarian and a new cold war comes into being.
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