As safety nets shred, some Christian churches provide key services to the poor while others use the desperation to build political power
Read more...An only mildly negative report on AI implementation from Germany, and why that is not likely to be generalizable to the US.
Read more...Moscow takes measures against Baku and Yerevan to warn against corridor move that would upset regional balance and be blow to Iran and Russia.
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...Farewell My Lovely is a film about a jaded detective Phillip Marlowe and his search for a gangster’s moll named Velma.
Read more...A new article by Michael Hudson, an extract from an upcoming book, gives a long view of colonial exploitation and China as a counter-model
Read more...Coexistence between humans and wildlife is a meaningful goal, but it’s being misused or superficially invoked.
Read more...The Trump administration accuses Mexico of “dumping” tomatoes on the US — something the US would never dream of doing with the agricultural goods it sends to Mexico (sarc).
Read more...A new paper rates 170 countries for climate risk exposure. This ambitious and imporant exercise neverthless seems to have key gaps.
Read more...A new twist on inflation: how workers and corporates trying to preserve their financial position has the effect of perpetuating inflation
Read more...A historical analysis shows that greater representation was a bargain autocratic, here feudal, rulers had to strike to get support for war
Read more...The meme-contour of recent articles seems designed to promote resignation towards nuclear war and other horrors of combat.
Read more...Debunking some widely held misperceptoins about why US housing is so pricey.
Read more...Meet Project Nectar, a new surveillance state initiative being tested for the UK and planned for rollout to police forces broadly.
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