Trump Policies and “Donald Dash” Expats Produce Net Emigration for US, Prospective Population Shrinkage
The US showed net emigration in 2025, with an increase in expats bumping up over a rising trend line.
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Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
Read more...The Roots of Nazi Ideology: Arthur Graf J. Gobineau and His Racial-Racist Political Theory
How resentment of the republican ideal of equality stoked the racist theories of Arthur Graf J. Gobineau.
Read more...The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities.
Read more...In Praise of the Lunch Ladies Who Can Save Us from the Great American Food System
The Great American Food System™ is productive when measured by output, but it is not particularly good at producing wholesome and healthy food for the American people. The nature of healthy food has been argued for the past sixty years, with various food plates, pyramids, and other arrays used to illustrate recommendations of the day. […]
Read more...India Exchanges BRICS Ties for Lead Role in the American AI Cage
New Delhi sells out Russia and its own working class as part of India-Middle East-Europe [digital] Corridor that aims to fortify a new American-Israeli hegemony..
Read more...Do You Trust Epstein Elite With Nuclear Weapons?
No arms limitation treaties, few diplomatic channels, AI integration into nuclear command systems, and an elite with Epstein social values. What could go wrong?
Read more...The Myth of the West: Democracy and the State
Per Thomas Neuburger ‘Democratic’ life began millions of years ago. It died with the birth of the city-state.
Read more...One Affordability Battle After Another: What To Do About the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
Read more...Why Does Economics Refuse to Acknowledge John Ruskin’s Illith, as in Harmful Activity?
Why the economics discipline has ignored John Ruskin’s seminal concept of illith, as in destructive activity.
Read more...Ralph Linton (1936), Identity Politics, and the Concept of Ascribed Status
Ralph Linton, arguably the father of what we now call identity politics, had some impressive insights as well as blind spots.
Read more...Coffee Break: Science Agonistes, with Hope at the End
Part the First: Confirmation the Scientific Literature Has Entered Terminal Decline? In an update from last week’s Coffee Break, Cabell’s Predatory Reports database passes 20,000-journal milestone: The US-based information services company reports that Predatory Reports has grown by more than 300% since its launch in 2017. Having reached 10,000 journals in 2019 and 15,000 in […]
Read more...When War Weakens Democracy
Wars often undermine democracy, but it appears that that result is not baked in but operates in particular circumstances.
Read more...More Handwringing About Collapsing Birth Rates: How Focus on Gender Roles Misses the Mark
Sentimentality about child-rearing is leading experts not to look clinically enough at why birth rates around the world are plunging.
Read more...Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Antonioni’s Mysteries
A look at the major works of Michelangelo Antonioni and how he influenced film-making.
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