What Would Happen if the UK Tried to, or Did, Repay Its National Debt?
The leadership contest in the UK is set to produce yet more flogging of bad neoliberal tropes, so this post provides a needed counterpoint.
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Obama Legacy: As Celebrities Descended Upon Chicago Presidential Center, Across Town Firefighters Were Evacuating Patients From Another Private-Equity-Destroyed Hospital
Let’s try to understand how Barry raised a billion for his Borg ship. Don’t forget your Altoids.
Read more...Fifty Two Questions for Andy Burnham
Former mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is set to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. Will he bring change or more of the same?
Read more...Coffee Break: More on American Science, An NIH Grant Long Overdue, An Experimental Model, and Further Thoughts on AI
Part the First: Back to the Past in Science and Medicine. The future of basic science in the United States looks grim for everyone from the aspiring graduate student to the full professor who has met her potential and has several graduate students, postdocs, and technicians working in her laboratory. The precipitous and arbitrary Big […]
Read more...Report Details ‘Human Rights Crisis’ Wrought by Trump ICE Surge in Minnesota
Human Rights Watch published a blistering analysis of ICE abuses in its Minneapolis raid in late 2025.
Read more...How Local Communities Are Challenging Big Tech Data Centers’ Noise, Pollution and Rising Electricity Bills
Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.
Read more...“This Wealth Tax Won’t Work”
Sadly, trying to tax wealth directly is not what it is cracked up to be. But there are other approaches that are viable.
Read more...A New Cancer Drug and the Nature of Scientific Discovery
Glen Campbell, who was a member of The Wrecking Crew, once remarked that he had worked hard for ten years to become an overnight success in 1967, with thanks to John Hartford. Without stretching too much, this same trajectory, extended by more than ten years, has been illustrated recently in biomedical research by the case […]
Read more...How (And Why) AI is Eroding Democracy in the US
Big Tech elitists enlist AI for power grabs, from spying in our homes to profiting from militarism. Luckily, people are fighting back.
Read more...Green Growth Claims Are Overstated – Our Study Shows Three Reasons Why
Conor here: Perhaps what the authors call “the holy grail of environmental policy” (economic growth with less emissions) needs a rethink. Sooner rather than later they’ll have no choice as global warming will do the job if conflicts don’t, and degrowth will be imposed on us one way or another. The European Central Bank, for […]
Read more...‘This Is Oligarchy’: Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins’ Reelection Bid
My goodness, why are so many billionaires, the overwhelming majority of whom do not vote in Maine, so eager to see Graham Platner lose?
Read more...Wealth Is Not the Biggest Problem We Face: Inequality of Power Is
Is there any way back from the extreme concentration of power in societies across the world?
Read more...Increasing Employment in Pre-Retirement Years Slows Cognitive Decline
Older men show less cognitive decline if they keep working. Does this finding apply only to paid jobs or would charity roles be salutary too?
Read more...Reclaiming the Pursuit of Happiness
A reminder on the Declaration’s 250th anniversary of the lack of freedom due to poverty and wealth inequality.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it
How pervasive behavioral disorders among what passes for elites are destructive not just to the social order but ultimately to them too.
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