Could Sleeper Trains Replace International Air Travel?
After years of decline, night train services are again expanding, in part to cater to passengers who try to avoid air travel for environmental reasons.
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Why I Am Worried About the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Balloting Process
Potential 2020 trainwreck at the ballot box.
Read more...Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments
China announces a ban on single-use plastics, while Malaysia refuses to serve as the world’s waste bin, and returns foreign waste shipments.
Read more...While Establishment Erupts Over Anti-Corruption Expert Pointing Out Biden’s Troubling Record, Progressives Say: Look at the Troubling Record
Why discussion of Biden’s corruption should not be off limits in the Dem primary contest; Trump will raise these issues in the general.
Read more...Precarity: A Political Problem
‘Free market’ advocates claim that the rise of precarity was inevitable, as opposed to the result of political decisions.
Read more...Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon
India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.
Read more...The Lords and Ladies of Discipline: An Interview with Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller explains how economics reinforces established power relations.
Read more...In Historic Shift, Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It’s Medicare for All
The 159,000-member American College of Physicians cal for major changes to the US health care system and endorse Medicare for All.
Read more...Thoughts on Warren, Sanders and the Convention: Warren’s Choice?
Unpacking the implications of the Warren attack on Sanders.
Read more...The New York Times Dual Endorsement of Klobuchar and Warren: This Ain’t It, Chief
Lambert puts on his yellow waders and ventures out on the Times Editoral Board…
Read more...Brexit: Digging In
Brexit again gets ugly.
Read more...Sex Workers Can Tell You Why Sex Work Is Work – Speak to Them
Combatting mispercptions about sex work, paritcularly the need for better work condiions.
Read more...Lake Erie, Toxic Algae, and Mobilizing to Protect Toledo’s Drinking Water by Declaring the Lake a Person
How Toledo citizens mobilized to protect the Lake Erie ecosystem by declaring it to be a person with rights, the reaction of the corporations and the State, and how you can help.
Read more...Integrating Black and White American Economic History
The interplay of black and white economic history: slaves, freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration.
Read more...Trump’s China Trade Deal Handwave
There’s not much to like in the Trump “Phase 1” China trade deal because there’s not much to it.
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