The Central Asian Alphabet Issue
The oft-ignored role of an alphabet in politics and identity.
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Our Rolling Civil War
The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.
Read more...More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”
A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.
Read more...Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
Read more...Covid Crisis Hits New York City Schools
With students and teacher absences high, New York City schools are buckling under Omicron. A harbinger for other US cities?
Read more...Calling Trump ‘Just a Warm-Up Act,’ Professor Warns of Democratic Collapse in US
Why it is a little too pat to blame the right for the sorry state of democratic processes in the US.
Read more...My “Wealth Effect Monitor” & “Wealth Disparity Monitor” for the Fed’s Money-Printer Economy: December Update
The wealth gap rises: Billionaires got more billions, the bottom half of Americans got peanuts and inflation.
Read more...Manchin Takes Aim at Build Back Better, but His Real Focus is on West Virginia
What does Manchin want?
Read more...Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic
Ah, the distaste for urban squalor, um, traffic. Why do a lot of people want to turn cities into something else?
Read more...Subway Service Delays Feared as Omicron Hits the Express Track
New York City as a canary in the coal mine: how Omicron is already hampering staffing of public transportation.
Read more...Maybe No Omicron Boosters?
The Administration, in the form of Dr. Fauci, is taking another anti-public-health stance by talking down Omicron boosters.
Read more...Kellogg Workers OK Contract, Ending 11-Week Strike
The Kellogg agreement still leaves workers vulnerable, says a local union president.
Read more...Why America’s Military Leaders Need to be Purged
Why the US miliitary desperately needs a housecleaning, starting at the top.
Read more...The Privilege of Staying Home: COVID and the Highly Skilled Workforce
At home work during the pandemic allowed most skilled workers to choose immobility, which could affect future work and migration patterns
Read more...Alone and Lonely: The Economic Cost of Solitude
This column distinguishes between two forms of solitude – loneliness and living alone – and studies their influence on the economic performance of European regions at the local level.
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