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Sunday, February 8, 2026
Homelessness Among Older People Is on the Rise, Driven by Inflation and the Housing Crunch
Rising housing and medical costs meet fixed incomes to push older peope into desperation and homelessness.
Knowledge Overconfidence: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Russia Slips Out of Kherson Under Cover of Midterms
Russia says it is pulling out of Kherson city, much to the consternation of Russian Telegrammers. But Ukraine isn’t buying it. What gives?
Government Surveillance at 2022 U.N. Climate Conference
Gambling in Casablanca! Spying in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the COP27 conference! Who’d have thunk it?
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/9/2022
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day European Turtle-Dove, Kelling Heath, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only […]
U.S. to Announce Plan for Private Companies to Fund International Renewable Energy Transition
Yet more proof that the US is far more inteested in green energy profiteering than doing the hard work to reduce the pace of climate change.
Debunking the Petrodollar Myth: Pricing Oil in Dollars Is Just a Convention
The term petrodollar has come to have talismanic value. Time to instill some reality.
A Stunning Political Comeback for Israel’s Netanyahu May Give Way to Governing Nightmare Ahead
Has the wily Netanyahu backed himself into a corner?
2022 Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread
Live Blog/Open Thread for 2022 midterm results
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/8/2022
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Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times
Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.
