NYC Doctors, Doulas, Activists Prep for a Massive Influx of Abortion Seekers
At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more
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The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?
It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.
Read more...Welfare Can Discourage Crime More Than It Discourages Work
Who’d have thunk it? Income support, such as welfare, reduces crime.
Read more...Boris Johnson Death Watch
Boris Johnson agonistes.
Read more...Supremes Kayo Climate Change Regulation: West Virginia v. EPA
The Supreme Court last week scuppered the ability of the EPA to implement climate change regulation under the Clean Air Act- absent further action by Congress.
Read more...Shorting British, American and Baltic Intelligence – Going Long on Vladimir Putin
Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s possible to get books published about Putin based on accounts by spooks not in Russia when Putin was in office.
Read more...Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.
Read more...The Filibuster, the “Nuclear Option,” and a (New, Old) Thermonuclear Option
The filibuster: Senatorial arcana, the Senate as a deliberative body, and blowing it all up with a lawsuit based on a theory of “legislative entrenchement”
Read more...Wealth of Two Nations: The US Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020
Severe racial differences in initial conditions after Emancipation have contributed greatly to today’s stalled progress in closing the racial wealth gap.
Read more...‘Indefensible’: Outrage as New Reporting Shines Light on Biden Deal With McConnell
Biden gets played again. A feature or a bug?
Read more...Michael Hudson: A Depression Is Coming
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and warns a “long depression” is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.
Read more...Privacy in the Wake of Dobbs: How Safe Are Your Medical Records and Digital Data If Prosecutors or Bounty Hunters from No-Choice States Come Knocking?
To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...Fighting Words – What the Poles Say When They Dare Do Nothing About NATO and the US
How Poland is getting the short end of the stick from the US and NATO. Not that that should be a surprise.
Read more...Drax Eyeing California as Site of New Biomass Carbon Capture Plant
UK company Drax is pitching a huge project, and seeking huge subsidies. for an unproven biomass technology.
Read more...Climate Hypocrisy Ensures Global Warming
Facts and figures on advanced economy climate negligence.
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