Using Opioid Settlement Cash for Police Gear Like Squad Cars and Scanners Sparks Debate
A look at how different communities are deploying opioid settlement cash. But no clear data on policing versus treatment.
Read more...A look at how different communities are deploying opioid settlement cash. But no clear data on policing versus treatment.
Read more...A divergent take on Poland elections: PiS lost becaue it promised to address the costs of 1990s shock doctrine but then did little.
Read more...New York City will send arriving migrant families seeking shelter to a former airfield. Those now in shelters get 60-day eviction notices.
Read more...Deaths of despair turn out to be more widespread than thought earlier. Yet lack of interest in this collective tragedy persists.
Read more...Rob Urie provides a follow-on post to focus on a topic he mentioned in passing: fascism on the left, and fascism generally.
Read more...European “nationalist” governments embrace EU-prescribed austerity and pursue exploitable immigrant labor for their overlords despite running on anti-immigrant platforms.
Read more...“Sacrifice zones”—pollution hot spots—are a front line in an often deadly and steadily growing health crisis across the United States
Read more...How Americans, or at least their putative leaders, are pursing policies that are deranged and increasingly authoritarian.
Read more...An overview of the issues in and the magnitude of the strike at the Kaiser health system.
Read more...Dollar General has launched profit-motivated health clinics on wheels. What could go wrong?
Read more...New York City parents, public officials and climate advocates all say the mayor and his team were ill-prepared for the effects of a storm that was on the radar days before.
Read more...When the US housing crisis meets the looming insurance crisis, only government intervention will avert catastrophe.
Read more...Workers adjust their immediate labour supply in response to the income effects caused by changes to future pensions.
Read more...It isn’t AI displace jobs. That’s the result of capitalists giving priority to profits, versus say product or workplace improvement.
Read more...The cheap and highly addictive cocaine-like stimulant Captagon shows signs of following in the opioid fentanyl’s footsteps.
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