Monday, December 29, 2025
The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
Big Ag price gouging is driving still elevated grocery store prices. When will that become a political issue?
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/2/2024
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Ukraine: Breakthrough on All Fronts Ahead of Schedule
The over-anticipated collapse in Ukraine’s combat capacity may finally be starting.
The DEA Takes Aim at Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Misses Badly
“There was no evidence for what they were trying to say,” said former DEA agent Mike Vigil. “I did not see any evidence that López Obrador was involved, had knowledge or intention of receiving ‘hot money’ from drug traffickers.”
CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
What’s the Fate of Social Security in a Brutally Unequal America?
Presidential contenders ignore root causes threatening Social Security. Is it due to their reliance on wealthy donors?
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/1/2024
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Cancer in the Corn Belt Sparks Actions to Fight Farm Fertilizer Nitrate Contamination
Long-standing concerns about fertilizer runoff leading to toxic nitrates in water supplies look to be getting more traction.
Freedom of Navigation: Houthi Attacks Only Part of How a Historical Anomaly Is Unwinding
Open seas, often touted as freedom of navigation, may be on its way out due to US negligence and technology change.
Identity Formation as a Stage of Human Development
Why identity is about sustainability, not uniqueness.
‘Rooftop Solar Is the Future, but It’s Also a Scam’
The solar panel business illustrate how corporations will always find the least acceptable solution to any problem, as they have with AI
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2024
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