The Gates Foundation’s Global Reach Expands, to Mixed Reviews
The Gates Foundation steps into the void left by the U.S., and brings with it limited accountability, conflicts of interest, and a history of failure in its stated mission.
Read more...The Gates Foundation steps into the void left by the U.S., and brings with it limited accountability, conflicts of interest, and a history of failure in its stated mission.
Read more...Controlling the future by controlling the past, here by censorship of narrative-busting photos.
Read more...A window into the thuggish efforts to sabotage Zohran Mamdani bid for New York City mayor, here by the Department of Homeland Security.
Read more...How the Roman Plebeian Council used tribal allegiances to curb the power of patricians.
Read more...Shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a worldwide catastrophe, my much better half asked me how long I thought this would this last. Based on my then 45 years of biomedical research experience I replied, “Three years.” I was wrong. That was more than five years ago, when the refrigerated makeshift morgues were parked on […]
Read more...Probably not in their current form, but there’s a counterintuitive argument that we should be cheering for the Supreme Court to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board in order to revitalize labor.
Read more...Why military spending remains untouchable.
Read more...Millionaires are not fleeing countries to escape taxes.
Read more...Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States. College costs too much in the United States. Professional School costs way to much. Up until the present – who knows what will happen next as the broad attacks on American universities continue – graduate education at the PhD level in traditional disciplines in the […]
Read more...How a Trump 1.0 tarrifs backfire illustrates fundamental flaw in how Trump goes about doing things.
Read more...A buried budget clause could force the largest public land sell-off in modern history, without a vote, a hearing, or a warning.
Read more...ICE is becoming even more high-handed in its defiance of legally mandated Congressional oversight rights.
Read more...Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.
Read more...In Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy presents historical foes of monopoly, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism
Read more...Iran, which had just taken a major step to integrate its network into China-led transport corridors, is the last major roadblock to US-Israel domination of Middle East regional supply chains.
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