Category Archives: Guest Post

NYT Report: 9 of Every 10 Restaurants and Bars in N.Y.C. Can’t Pay Full Rent

While the NYT reports 9 out of 10 bars and resturants cannot make full rent, the city dithers about real solutions to eliminitaig evictions.

Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Your Antidote to the Toxicity of Late-Stage Neoliberalism

Matt Stoller explains why Naked Capitalism is so often right and early and annoys the powerful.

News from the Archives: A Tale of Two Presidents, Letters Between Nixon and Trump

New exhibition of letters between Trump and Nixon reveals some common and persistent themes, including distrust of the media.

Pompeo: We are Building A Coalition Against Nord Stream 2

Pompeo says the United States is bulding a coalition intended to stope the construction of Russi’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Recycling Isn’t Enough to Tackle the World’s Worsening Plastic Pollution Crisis

Finally the message may be getting through. The recycling fairy alone won’t save us from the plastics crisis. We must confront the pushers.

Oh No, Say it Ain’t So: NYC’s Century 21 to Shutter Its Doors

Denial of business interruption insurance claim forces NYC clothing retailer Century 21 to declare bankruptcy.

Oil Industry’s Shift to Plastics in Question as Report Warns $400 Billion in Stranded Assets Possible

By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications.Originally published at DeSmogBlog. Off Africa’s eastern coast, north of Madagascar, lies Aldabra Atoll, a cluster of coral islands that surround a […]

New Justice Confirmed By Election Day?

Republicans now have the votes to confirm a justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor, before the 2020 election. What will Democrats do after?

Signs of an ‘October Vaccine Surprise’ Alarm Career Scientists

Some scientists fear Trump will try to approve an “October surprise” vaccine before it’s fully tested and ready to be distributed. Yikes.

CDC Flip-Flops on Paradigm Shift to SARS-COV-2 Transmission via Aerosols

Why did the CDC guidance on Covid transmission through aerosols get pulled?

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/22/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Reader response to the introduction of this feature was mostly positive, so I’ll keep on with it. A nightingale is possibly more musical than a loon… #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. […]