The US has turned to contact tracing as the latest panacea for slowing the spread of COVID-19. Major flaws in the design of these programs will limit their success.
Read more...In this time of worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, stork chicks hatch in the United Kingdom for the first time in 600 years.
Read more...Trump appointees use the COVID-19 crisis to rollback consumer protections against financial predation put in place by the CFPB.
Read more...$1.9 billion in CARES Act tax breaks intended to allow small businesses to keep people employed are instead being funnelled to fossil fuel executives.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Local norms play a meaningful role in Covid-19 transmission, which has implications for how to end lockdowns.
Read more...Parsing some US coronavirus data.
Read more...Countries jostle to surrender civil liberties to a techno-fix app to quell COVID-19, but should instead heed Hong Kong’s low-tech lesson.
Read more...A major story on the CLOs chooses not to address the key questions.
Read more...More evidence, as if you needed it, that the super rich are not your friends.
Read more...The US is willing to practice human sacrifice, rather than explore a way of defining wealth outlined by 19th-century thinker John Ruskin.
Read more...In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
Read more...Funny how that small business bailout worked…..
Read more...Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
Read more...Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
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