Nicholas Buccola is a historian of the United States who will still be read 30-40-50 years from now. I regret that I will not be here to see where he takes us. In 2019 he published The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America. This […]
Read more...A more detailed look at why to resist massive pressures for data center buildout and question claims of inevitability.
Read more...Private-equity-owned RealPage can still lead national rental housing cartel as it moves to access renters’ financial data and embraces AI decision-making. The company is also suing New York state for violating its speech by attempting to stop its illegal behavior.
Read more...Richard Murphy explains how antisocial neoliberal economics deliberately creates poverty — using fear and insecurity to keep wages low, rents high, and wealth flowing up to the richest.
Read more...As ICE protests continue, are they succeeding in throwing sand in the gears of the deportation machine?
Read more...Countries can either capitulate to President Trump’s tax bullying or come together to fight for the sovereign right to tax multinationals fairly.
Read more...Part the First: When Science Becomes a Matter of Belief Things Go Sideways. The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is getting his way. This is not a surprise. The President hired him to “go wild on health” and he is doing just that. Some have complained that as Secretary of HHS that RFKJr […]
Read more...The historical, philosophical, and social foundations of Thomas Hobbes’ political thought.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi muses about a favorite Buddha, in the sense of “old man”: Salman Rushdie.
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Read more...Greystar is penalized 0.002 percent of the $300 billion worth of real estate it manages, and must stop using collusion software—maybe.
Read more...AI: too big to be regulated?
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Read more...Part the First: CDC Finally “Decides” that Vaccines Cause Autism. In news that will surprise absolute nobody, while pleasing some and causing despair in others, CDC says the mountains of data that show vaccines do NOT cause autism is not evidence-based: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday publicly reversed its stance that […]
Read more...In the information age, it is difficult to make sense of events. Endless amounts of information do not necessarily coalesce into a coherent narrative with explanatory meaning. The breakdown of the international order is precipitating the emergence of different narratives that engender competing truths. The German writer Goethe said: “When eras are on the decline, […]
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