In 2021, OSHA initiated efforts “to consider a heat-specific workplace rule.” In the meantime, states and local governments are free to make their own rules, let workers fend for themselves, or even put workers at greater risk.
Read more...What if we convert redundant office space to affordable living space or public housing and quit with the return-to-office pressure?
Read more...How Tom Ferguson’s archival research showed that conventional wisdom on voter behaior was rnaive, and investment drives outcomes.
Read more...Can online learning be saved? Lessons from the pandemic school closures.
Read more...And why finding reforms to our current economic system is a Sisyphean task.
Read more...America has the means to substantially alleviate homelessness but not the desire.
Read more...Child exploitation is baack! How did we get here?
Read more...There are no doubt good reasons for Americans to be concerned about China, but our official justificaitons don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Read more...The Nanterre killing & banlieue riots show the problems of the French government, media, and dominant culture with “post-colonial” minorities.
Read more...How much is the Supreme Court to blame for the red shift in policies?
Read more...Some links from Thomas Neuburger loosely related to the theme of the Fourth of July. Be sure to check ou the one on WhatsApp.
Read more...How corporate interests created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Read more...Doctors sometimes describe their patients negatively. How does that affect their care down the line?
Read more...Is the big challenge to the UK Ireland unification rather than Scottish independence?
Read more...Medical care is being systematicaly degraded in the US. And we have AI coming to cut more humans out.
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