Bird Song of the Day Patient readers, I apologize for the enormous typo. This is what I (and you) get then I deviate from my standard template. –lambert Brown Thrasher, Sippo Lake–Exploration Gateway, Stark, Ohio, United States. * * * By Lambert Strether There’s a quotation from John D. MacDonald’s Pale Grey for Guilt that […]
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Read more...A look at the legality of Trump tariffs. Sadly, another proof that international law does not count for much in practice.
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Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics ~
Read more...Many in the West now deny imperialism. But even the Economist now sees Trump’s revival of this US legacy.
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Read more...Why the Musk attack on NIH and NSF funding formulas will eviscerate US medical research.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; A typical day in the Trump White House, per the NY Post; Elon on political economy (with handy diagram); Stoller on Trump gutting the CFPB; The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Rise of Italian Fascism ~
“Climate Minsky moments” do not warrant delaying ambitious climate policy.
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Read more...Revealingly, Musk makes closing an agency that keeps billionaires like him from cheating ordinary citizens a top priority.
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