Secession Is Here: States, Cities and the Wealthy Are Already Withdrawing from America
Alienation and separatism can go a long long way before getting to outright secession, and they still have real consequences.
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California’s Covid Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings
California’s Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.
Read more...The High and Getting Higher Cost of Renting in the US
Why renting is even more expensive than ever, even pinching the soi-disant middle class.
Read more...The Role of Default Settings in Online Searches: Challenging Google Dominance
A meaningful level of onsumers will opt out of the default setting of Google as their search engine, particularly if prompted early and often
Read more...Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media
Contrasting ideologies at play about the structure and role of social media mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics.
Read more...Workers’ Responses to the Threat of Automation
How effectively do workers perserve their position relative to automation?
Read more...Biden Administration Urged to Take More Aggressive Steps to Relieve Medical Debt
The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Read more...Equality and Equity
How a word like “equality” has become a bit of a minefield.
Read more...What If the World Cannot Save the World from Climate Change?
How climate change reveals a crisis of international governance.
Read more...The Fiscal Side of Europe’s Energy Crisis: The Facts, Problems and Prospects
A deep dive into the costs and impact of the recent, large-scale European energy subsidies.
Read more...Identifying the Real Resistance
Can the rich be trusted to fix a breaking world? Or should the real resistance unite beneath one banner?
Read more...Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing
Why handwringing about population decline is the wrong reaction.
Read more...New, Buzzy Cochrane Study Sets the “Fools Gold” Standard for Anti-Maskers
Putting on my yellow waders for the Cochrane study,
Read more...How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse
Does Stabucks CEO Howard Schultz deserve the title of labor enemy #1?
Read more...5 Reasons Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine
The so-called Collective West and the rest of the world have a yawning gap in how they view the war in Ukraine.
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