The Fervent Debate Over the Best Way to Confront Global Warming
Supporters of cutting carbon emissions to tackle global warming have long struggled against advocates of climate-change adaptation strategies
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‘Dictatorship Never Again’: Massive Pro-Democracy Protests Sweep Brazil
Protestors in Brazil want to change the government, end neo-fascism, and ensure Constitutional rights.
Read more...An Unjustified Fear of Nuclear Energy Is Holding the Industry Back
Why consumers might have to reconcile themselves to much disliked nuclear energy as less bad than other options.
Read more...The IRA Drug Price ‘Victory’
A high-level description of the empty bag known as the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug price controls.
Read more...Italy’s Upcoming Election and Its Ongoing Neoliberal Project
More on the EU upset over Italy’s move to the right, like the expected success of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) in Sept. elections.
Read more...China And Saudi Arabia Intensify Energy Cooperation With Critical Deal
How China rescued bin Salman and leveraged that relationship into a deal that advances China’s aim of making the kingdom a client state.
Read more...Third Time May Not Be Charm for Patel as Voters Reluctant to Embrace Generational Change
A case study of why voters are inclinded to stick with office-holders well past their sell-by dates.
Read more...How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives
Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.
Read more...Wrong Way CalPERS Increased Private Equity Allocation by Over 50% as Investors Are Dumping Holdings
The Financial Times reports that private equity investors are running for the exits as CalPERS plans to pile on.
Read more...America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
Read more...Memo to China: You Look Silly When You Threaten to Dump Treasuries
If China intends to cov the West, it needs to pick things it could do that would incur real damage. Selling Treasuries it not that.
Read more...The Supreme Court’s Own Goal on Climate Change
Why the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency looks more like hacker than jurisprudence.
Read more...Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?
In 1958, the US considered a nuclear strike against China if China’s planned conquest of Formosa went well.
Read more...Recession Mongers Shocked & Horrified by This Surge in Employment
Perversely, investors want a recession to force the Fed to pivot. But it’s tough to have an official recession with employment growing.
Read more...PredictIt: The Closing of a Prediction Market
PredictIt is likely to shutter. A look at how contract holders may win or lose, as well as the loss of a window into voter sentiment.
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