Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?
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Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
Case studies of Armenia, Vietnam and Poland as countries that re-emerged after conquest. What set them apart?
Read more...Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop
Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Read more...Is American Science Stuck in a Doom Loop?
The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]
Read more...Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats
Over time, Democrats came to support the end to South Africa’s apartheid, whch makes the cowardice over Gaza genocide even more deplorable
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Not a Viable Option
How neoliberalism contributes to the growth of fascism.
Read more...Putin and Trump in Alaska: Do Men Make History or Does History Make Men?
At the meeting between Putin and Trump, the question of whether a leader is a product of history or its maker reveals much about them, and us.
Read more...The US Should Look to Putin for Help to Rebuild Trust in American Institutions
American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.
Read more...On Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone
On the long process of Urkaine national identify formation and why, even with that, Ukraine was relatively late to become a state.
Read more...Boycott Lufthansa: Removed Passenger from Flight for Wearing a Medical Mask
Lufthansa behaves badly. Circulate to everyone you know who flies to Europe to warn them of what might be in store.
Read more...Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate
A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.
Read more...The Straw Man City and the Architecture of Selective Small Government
Trump’s urban takeovers reveal a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.
Read more...Peak Neoliberalism: Wall Street Journal Pearl-Clutches Over Lack of Mobility Due to High Housing Costs, Insufficient Pay
The Journal laments how mobility has fallien while averting its eyes from how neoliberalsm and rentierism are the drivers.
Read more...Exactly What Is in the Ivy League Deals with the Trump Administration – and How They Compare
Details on some of the Trump agreements with top universities, such as the gap between the antisemitism bludgeon and what Trump got.
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