Plastic Mulch Promised Better Harvests. It May Be Hurting the Soil Instead.
Plastic mulch pollution may linger for centuries
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Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Yet Another Rescue Coming
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financiers.
Read more...Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025. His Ties Go Back Years
Quelle surprise! Elon Musk was long a Project 2025-type-program enthusiast and became its lead promoter and implementer.
Read more...Senator Demands Tyson Child Labor Probe. Trump’s Cuts to DOL Could Make That Difficult.
Whistleblower allegations fuel new pressure on labor officials, but the agency tasked with investigating illegal child labor is operating with one of its smallest teams in decades.
Read more...Public Health and Private Equity: What the Walgreens Buyout Could Mean for the Future of Pharmacy Care
Private equity makes more inroads into the health care industry, now with the buyout of the top pharmacy chain Walgreens.
Read more...Decades On, SSRIs Remain Mired in Mystery and Debate
Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy.
Read more...New SEC Chief on Board with Letting Retail Chumps Invest in Private Equity Even as Pros Like Kuwait Sovereign Wealth Fund Sound Red Alert
The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.
Read more...Rising Seas From Fossil Fuels Threaten Inland Migration ‘Never Witnessed in Modern Civilization’
A new study in Nature looks at one of the baked-in effects from just our current level of temperature increases: mass migration.
Read more...Crypto Crooks Now Eating Their Own as Crypto Holders Targeted in Crime, Even Violent; Coinbase “Hack” an Inside Job, and Highly Damaging to Wallet-Holders
Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
Read more...Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services
RFK Jr. embrace pseudoscience and embarks on eugenicist policies that seek to identify and disempower the underprivileged.
Read more...Trump’s Trade Deals Endanger Farmers and Our Food System
Trump is reversing protections of the US food system, subjecting farmers to a race to the bottom in international markets
Read more...Wall Street Journal Reports UnitedHealth Under Criminal Investigation for Medicare Fraud
The Department of Justice is reportedly seeking to indict UnitedHealth for Medicare Advantage fraud. Why has it been so hard to make a case?
Read more...When Illusions of Wealth Shape the Economy: Understanding Pseudo-Wealth, Macroeconomic Volatility, and Social Welfare
Why pseudo-wealth like crypto is detrimental to social welfare, as in the collective good.
Read more...They Looted Companies — Now They’re Looting the Government
Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
Some hopeful independent media news, here on the radio front.
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