A look at some of the tax and tax collection changes in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Scientific Research and the Unforeseen World: Why Basic Research is Essential
How the current process of funding science discourages basic research and makes fundamenal breakthroughs less likely.
Latin America Is Back on the Grand Chessboard, As Race for Resources and Strategic Influence Intensifies in New Cold War
Latin America is once again in the cross-hairs of the world’s great (but in some cases, declining) powers as the new Cold War heats up.
10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial
Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/18/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Economists Fear Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Bent on ‘Unleashing Mass Unemployment’
The Fed confirms its true colors of being in the business of disciplining labor, whether it makes sense of not.
Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign
Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.
A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/17/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows
How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
Germany to Keep Three Nuclear Plants Going Past Old Shut-Down Date to Alleviate Energy Crunch
Germany looks a wee bit desperate as it suddendly moves to keep three nuclear reactors in producion that were set for shutdown
