What ‘The Wire’ Teaches About Institutions
“The Wire” as a worked example on the nature and pace of change. Do you agree?
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Climate Change Is Affecting Mental Health Literally Everywhere
How climate change exacts a psychological toll, and what if anything to do.
Read more...The US, Israel, and the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Fraud
Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...Where Have All the Babies Gone? Falling Birthrates All Over the World Alarm Leaders, Businessmen, Economists
On the baby bust/falling birthrates freakout.
Read more...“Living in Netanyahu’s America” – In More Ways Than One
The economic components that have served as the dehumanizing foundation to Israel’s current “plausible” genocide share many similarities with poor Americans and migrant laborers who are treated as disposable in the US.
Read more...Their First Baby Came With Medical Debt. These Illinois Parents Won’t Have Another.
For millions of new parents, medical debt is now as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers.
Read more...Work Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.
Read more...What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.
Read more...Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!
A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Read more...Is a Future-Proof Science Possible?
The latest in KLG’s arc of posts on the theory and practice of science in the so-called modern world.
Read more...How ‘Apocalypse’ Became a Secular as Well as a Religious Idea
The meaning of “apocalypse” has expanded in recent decades from an exclusively religious idea to include other, more human-driven apocalyptic scenarios
Read more...The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap
More and more EU voters are rejecting the Union, as some like to call it. Economic malaise looks to be a big reason why.
Read more...“The True Shocking Driver of Crime in America”
A theory of crime, which while it has some explanatory power, weirdly omits white collar crime.
Read more...Stasi in the West
Governments across the West are enacting more draconian measures to silence all criticism and are increasingly asking citizens to inform on one another.
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