Supreme Court Denies Pork Industry Appeal of Animal Welfare Law
How the Supremes gave a win for farm animals over Big Ag.
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When Trust in Official Statistics Declines
The Trump firing of the BLS chief imposed costs by lowering faith in official statistics and increasing uncertainty.
Read more...Most EU Citizens Support Economic Growth Even Though Climate Experts Question Its Role
Most Europeans do not see a tradeoff between economic growth and preserving the environment. Propaganda and happy Green New Deal patter worked.
Read more...Big Money, the Maine Senate Race and US Party Competition: A Tale in Two Pictures
A “follow the money” analysis of the Maine Senate race, as in the Platner challenge, shows that it is indeed an exercise in class warfare.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Peace Power and Trust Engineering
War Power has long served civilization as the primary institution for managing consequential international conflict. But as the destructive costs of modern warfare continue to rise and advances in communications, sensing, verification, and artificial intelligence expand humanity’s capacity to produce calibrated trust, a new possibility, Peace Power, emerges.
Read more...These Church Members Disagree on Politics. Together They’re Wiping Out Medical Debt
A grass-roots effort to extinguish medical debt shows how destructive and ought-to-be-criminal US debt collection is.
Read more...Is Ecuador’s US-Born President, Daniel Noboa, the Most Powerful Drug Trafficker in Latin America?
“Noboa and Ecuador today export 70% of the cocaine consumed by the world. Most of it leaves on this criminal’s merchant ships and is packed in his banana facilities.”
Read more...Happy Birthday, America. Our Best Tradition Is Taking on the Powerful
A sunny view of egalitarian tendencies in the history of America.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: L’oeuvre Au Noir (1988) Run Time: 1H 44M Plus Bonuses!
L’oeuvre Au Noir is a film about an independant spirit in a time of repression.
Read more...Gardens Were Missing from These City Neighborhoods. Residents Are Changing That
Some urban schools in Chicago are using space in public housing projects to train children in cultivating gardens.
Read more...Judge Blocks ‘Unconstitutional and Dangerous’ Trump Order Designed to Derail Mail-In Voting
The court blocked the latest Trump effort to override voting laws, here by trying to assert Federal control over mail-in ballots.
Read more...The Creeping Americanisation of World Football
The biggest casualty of this year’s World Cup could end up being the beautiful game of football itself, and the damage could be permanent.
Read more...Trump 2.0’s Escalation Strategy Against Russia Is Starting To Take Shape
How the US is laying the foundation for escalation against Russia in Ukraine in the coming year.
Read more...The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition
Windows illustrates the growing reach of the surveillance and assertion of centralized software tools over supposedly personal devices.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The ‘Own Goals’ of Trump-onomics
Short seller David Einhorn’s saying, “No matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse” particularly applies to Trump’s economic schemes.
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