Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Unpacking why the US military is so expensive and even if it were less pork-driven, would still be unduly costly for society at large.
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Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?
Why alarmism about public debt is fundamentally misguided.
Read more...Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.
Read more...Poor Health Weakens Support for Fairer Healthcare
Why highly unequal societies like the US exhibit falling levels of population-level fitness along side falling support for better healthcare.
Read more...Is AI Creating Monsters?
More troubling new sightings on the AI front.
Read more...Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
It appears Wes Streeting has channeled his inner Trump and is trying to bully NHS doctors when he does not hold good cards.
Read more...Why Housing Prices in Big Cities Cannot Be Expected to Come Down Any Time Soon
On the dynamics behind seemingly unyielding high urban housing prices.
Read more...Obamacare Enhanced Subsidies/Health “Care” Fixes, Expressed as Pentagon Units
Time for some perspective on enhanced Obamacare subsidies costs and stakes.
Read more...Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind.
Read more...How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
Yes, corporate Democrats did indeed grease the skids for Trump’s presidency, but the key misdeeds go back to Obama.
Read more...Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
A look at Trump’s non-solution to the looming problem of the expiration of Covid-era ACA subsidies.
Read more...Revulsion, La Grande Bouffe, and the Spectacle of Grotesque Elite Self and System Destruction
Why our elites, starting with the top ranks in the Trump Administration, are disgusting.
Read more...The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Read more...With UK Politics in Flux, Corbyn’s Your Party May Surprise You Yet
Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one
Read more...The Anti-MAGA Economics of the Second Trump Administration
How Trump has defaulted on his MAGA promises.
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