Today’s Water Cooler: China and Shutterstock, Nevada polling, Biden, Bloomberg, Clinton, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, impeachment “coup,” trolling, consumer sentiment, wholesale trade, Uber, Amazon, recession fears receding, global production ecosystem, wine county fires, human diversity, MIT robots
Read more...Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Read more...CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
Read more...Why the problem of human energy consumption is intractable.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: US/China to reverse tariffs in “phases,” theories of change, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Weld, employment, impeachment for “quid pro quo” to extortion/bribery, CA methane super-emitters, rivers in Tibet, Russia, Mexico, grotesque college admissions scandal
Read more...A review of major institutional and political developments that created modern Europe.
Read more...Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Read more...Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...How the Kurds always wound up on the losing end of imperial map-drawing.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China milk imports, Biden, Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Kentucky, Maine, Virginia, Washington, propaganda, productivity and costs, Twitter, chip fabrication, Boeing, Iraq’s marshes, Laos tigers, elephants v. poverty/corruption, Dr. Bronner, sexual objectification, blogging
Read more...A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China and EV batteries, Sanders, Steyer, Trump, Warren, AOC, impeachment, Warren’s #MedicareForAll plan, employment, services, international trade, luxury real estate, Bitcoin, California dams, Russian nuclear dumps, how many bathrooms does Jeff Bezos need?
Read more...Matt Taibbi’s must-read new book Hate Inc. describes how the media stokes fake conflicts to prevent consideration of real issues.
Read more...How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
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