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.
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‘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.
Read more...“Letter to My Fiercest Abortion Opponent”
Yves here. This personal abortion account is from a known reader and is accurate. By Jane Doe Dear person who believes abortion is murder, I write to explain why I don’t, hoping you will listen and understand. I accept I cannot persuade you. I understand your beliefs; I want you to understand mine. We Americans […]
Read more...“G7 Aims to Hurt Russia with Price Cap on Oil Exports”
If this harebrained Russia oil price cap scheme gets off the ground, it’s likely to be yet another Western economic own goal.
Read more...‘Infuriating’: Biden Rebuked for Continued Opposition to Supreme Court Expansion
Democrats mull various options, from Supreme Court expansion to abolition of the filibuster, the the wake of the overturn of Roe last Friday.
Read more...Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade by 5-4 Vote, Thereby Leaving it to States to Make Their Own Abortion Laws
The Supreme Court Friday overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to an abortion. States are once again free to impose their own arbortion restrictions, including outright bans.
Read more...Boycotts in Sport May Not Advance Human Rights. But They Do Harm Individual Athletes
Wimbledon bans Russian athletes from this year’s tournamentnt. Other than virtue-signalling, what did its organisers hope to achieve?
Read more...How Effective Are Police?
Yves here. I hate to come off as a knee-jerk skeptic, but I question some of the premises of the post. First, Neuberger states, without a link to a study, that most people think solving crimes is the most uncontroversial/important thing police do (his statement about the popular view of the role of crime solving […]
Read more...Growing Revolt Among Medical Practitioners Against Vaccinating Toddlers for Covid
The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.
Read more...WTO 12th Ministerial Conference Continues Sorry Record of Anti-Worker, Anti-Developing Economy Policies
After pretenses that it might be more solicitous towards people, as opposed to big companies, the WTO followed the money masters.
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