What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes
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Advertising Makes You Unhappy – By Design
Is advertising bad for you?
Read more...GOP Lawmakers Eye SNAP Cuts, Reducing Benefits for the Low Income at a Time of High Food Prices
The GOP again has SNAP food assistance benefits in their crosshairs. How might they make cuts? Can they muster the votes?
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Bombing Yemen
Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The bombing of Yemen, a story of pernicious foreign policy and misguided military action
Read more...As Future of Panama Canal Hangs in Balance, Mexico Quietly Begins Testing Its Interoceanic Rail Corridor
South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai just became the first company to use the rail corridor, which is being touted as a possible plan B to the embattled canal.
Read more...Why Did the CDC Bury Its Latest Measles Forecast?
The CDC planned to announce a new risk assessment that stressed the need for MMR vaccinations. Last week, it reversed course.
Read more...Europe Scrambles To Revive Metals Industry
The dire state of Europe’s metals industry is another example of the damage done by the loss of cheap Russian energy.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond and the Online Safety Act
The UK is attempting to set the rules for what and how information is served across the whole internet through the Online Safety Act.
Read more...Satyajit Das: European Mirages – Why Crises and Decline Lies Ahead
To alleviate its decline, Europe needs to restore good relations with Russia and China, which seems impossible absent regime changes
Read more...What Is Trump’s Grand Plan?
Is the real driving force behind the Trump agenda rule by broligarch?
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Book Review: The Dazzling Complexity of the Polar Realm
In “Ends of the Earth,” Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.
Read more...How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
Read more...The Next American Constitution
Trump’s Constitution-trampling has historical predecents. Where might we be headed?
Read more...As AI’s Power Grows, So Does Our Workday
Staffers uing AI are putting in more hours relative to non-AI-deploying positions. So who is working for whom?
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