Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Western Self-Destruction Continues: US Eyepoking China, US Failed Muscling of Latin America, EU Commission Schemes to Admit Ukraine. To What End?
Western officials are doing an impressive job of making not-great to bad situations worse. What gives?
How to Stay Cool in Hot Weather
With heat waves becoming more prevalent due to climate change, planning ahead can help provide relief during the next hot spell.
Would A Price Cap On Russian Oil Help Curb Its Revenue?
Janet Yellen’s idea that Russia will sell oil to the collective West at a super duper discount looks pretty unhinged.
Waste Watch: Colorado and New York Pass Right to Repair Measures
Two states, New York and Colorado, recently passed right to repair measures, covering digital electronics equipment and power wheelchairs.
Four Novelists, One Ocean: How Indian Ocean Literature Can Remap the World
Another book to add to the to-read pile, Charne Lavery’s Rewriting Ocean Worlds, about four novelists who center their work on the Indian Ocean and its environs.
Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this WTO ministerial than is generally known.
The Arm-Wrestle Over Opioids in the Operating Room
Some patients are opting out of opioids for operations. These anesthesiologists insist that’s a bad idea. But are they too dogmatic?
While You (and We) Were Busy, We Hit 1.75 Million Comments!
Thanks to our dedicated, insightful, and engaged commentariat, and most of all to our comments DJs, Jules and katiebird! We just reached 1,750,000 approved comments (we are now at 1,750,913 to be precise). By contrast, we started posting at the end of 2006. Most days in our first few months, we got no comments at […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/10/2022
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‘Time to Scrap the Cap’: Sanders, Warren Bill Targets Rich to Expand Social Security
Now, as Sen. Bernie Sanders notes, billionaires pay “the same amount of Social Security taxes as someone making $147,000 a year.”
Spain Faces Energy Blowback, As Its Largest Natural Gas Provider, Algeria, Breaks Commercial Ties
“Seldom in the history of Spanish diplomacy… has a foreign policy initiative had such disastrous results,” as Spain loses its grip on diplomatic relations with Algeria at the worst possible moment.
