On the long-standing religious and ethical proscriptions against usury, and how and why the Catholic Church rebranded it as interest.
Read more...Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...Another US disgrace in the form of a threat against the World Food Programme to advance a US son-of-floating pier scheme to feed Gazans.
Read more...Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid – but will that fly among Trump supporters?
Read more...Predictive policing experiments continue, despite poor results to date. Can this approach be made non-abusive?
Read more...More proof at Social Security of the damage done by letting DOGE run wild.
Read more...Ursula and company are inching towards using emergency powers for first installment of 900 billion ‘rearmament’ because Trump.
Read more...Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
Read more...Part the First. Convergence and Consensus in Science, or and how to interpret scientific results in context. From Holden Thorp, the Editor-in-Chief of Science: Kathleen Hall Jamieson believes that scientists need to talk…about convergent evidence. “Unlike declarations that a consensus exists, a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by […]
Read more...An update on the worsening shortfalls at food banks as the impact of Federal cuts takes hold.
Read more...Trump is escalating his campaign against sanctuary cities, and potentially even sanctuary churches. How might that play out?
Read more...Trump won’t change, but his foes must, argues Norman Solomon.
Read more...An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.
Read more...As someone who has spent most of his working life as a scientific worker and later as an academic scientist, graduate supervisor, teacher, grant reviewer, and administrator, the current devastation being visited upon my colleagues and their institutions is sickening. I have never thought my work was more useful or more important than anyone else’s. […]
Read more...How internet archives are thwarting the reactionary campaign to rewrite history and censor inconvenient information and ideas.
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