Manchin Takes Aim at Build Back Better, but His Real Focus is on West Virginia
What does Manchin want?
Read more...Category Archives: Infrastructure
Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic
Ah, the distaste for urban squalor, um, traffic. Why do a lot of people want to turn cities into something else?
Read more...Subway Service Delays Feared as Omicron Hits the Express Track
New York City as a canary in the coal mine: how Omicron is already hampering staffing of public transportation.
Read more...Carbon Pipelines in the Hawkeye State
A new, enormous boondoggle?
Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Amazon’s Deathtrap Warehouse in Edwardsville, IL: Will Bessemer, AL Be Next?
Social murder in Edwardsville.
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Containers
How international standards enabled containers to be stacked and shipped.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
Have the contradictions of the Democratic Party’s overarching strategy finally become untenable?
Read more...COP26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?
COP26 revealed climate activists have a very long way to go, and not necessarily in the way they think.
Read more...‘Manchin Is a F**king Snake’: Progressives Urged to Keep Pushing for Both Bills
Jayapal is “letting the president” handle Manchin after he says he won’t budge on the reconciliation package.
Read more...“Want to See a Modern Country Commit Suicide? Take a Hard Look at Britain”
Post Brexit Britain is not doing at all well, and things are not going to take a turn any time soon.
Read more...Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
Read more...Rural Alaska Has a Bridge Problem as Permafrost Thaws and Crossing River Ice Gets Riskier with Climate Change
In Alaska, bridges face a unique and growing set of problems as the planet warms.
Read more...Indigenous Resistance Instrumental in Stopping High-Profile Fossil Fuel Projects, Says Report
“The longer you fight them, the better chance you have.”
Read more...There’s One Surefire Way to End Big Sewage Spills: End Big Sewage
Massive, centralized facilities make for massive, centralized catastrophes — and the risk of public health and ecological disasters.
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