Why Our Food Systems Need a Radical Overhaul
Despite ravaging the Earth for industrial agriculture, we can’t provide nourishing food globally. That has to change.
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How the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Could Help Pay for #COVID-19 Treatment (and Lead to #MedicareForAll)
Some refreshingly lateral thinking….
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/2/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Super Tuesday polling, Bloomberg, Biden, Klobuchar out, Sanders, Warren, #COVID-19 and the primaries, Aaron Sorkin, manufacturing, construction, housing, Facebook, Calfornia wildfires, crops and salt, #COVID-19 and the working class, emotional support animals
Read more...Porkfest! Tallying How Much the Pentagon Really Costs
Yes, sports fans, Pentagon spending is even worse than you imagined.
Read more...2020’s Plague of Locusts: Updates on Africa and Pakistan (and China)
The plague of locusts in Africa (and Pakistan) is getting worse, and threatens millions with starvation. Solutions are pesticides, biopesticides (but, sadly, not ducks). China’s role is interesting.
Read more...Links 3/1/2020
Why East Germans Are Not Taking Advantage of the Large Wage Gap Between East and West Germany
Reallocating workers to better jobs at their current location could be a more cost-effective avenue to increase aggregate wages, and even accelerate regional convergence
Read more...Housing Insecurity, Homelessness, and Populism: Evidence from the UK
Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
Read more...More Than 9 Million People Use Freecycle Instead of Buying New
A bona fide sharing “economy”: Freecycle plans to add a lending and borrowing tool to encourage people to share with friends and neighbors.
Read more...Coronavirus Collateral Damage: How a Case in Korea Hit a Small Business in the US
How coronavirus is causing some US businesses headaches, and potentially distress
Read more...Links 2/28/2020
One reason cats and rabbits tend to get along is that for cats, grooming others is a sign of high status, but for rabbits, being groomed is a sign of high status.
Thus, each of these cuties is thinking "I'm the boss": pic.twitter.com/6sp6r9hWA7
— Noah Smith ? (@Noahpinion) February 26, 2020
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The Candidate’s Dilemma: “I Call on My Opponents To Stop Calling on Me To Drop Out.”
Why lazy thinking on Dem candidate odds is wrong.
Read more...Why Is Trump Trying to Kill a Small Agency with a Big Impact on Public Safety?
Quelle surprise! Trump is out to terminate an independent agency that has stepped into the EPA’s void.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
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