Even more ugly details about Google misbehavior in the online ad market.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Biden Urged to Fire Covid Response Chief Jeff Zients Over ‘Damning’ Failures
Calls for Zients’ ouster come amid intensifying outrage at the Biden administration’s overall pandemic response—anger that has hardly been limited to Zients.
Eurasia’s Ring of Fire
A theory of empire, based on aspirations for control of Eurasia.
An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
The murky, unregulated world of family offices, where oligarchs manage their capital.
With Billions in Fines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ranks Are ‘Packed With Rogues’
A new report catalogues 15,896 federal and state violations from more than 100 U.S. Chamber of Commerce members, including major fossil fuel companies.
The Central Asian Alphabet Issue
The oft-ignored role of an alphabet in politics and identity.
How ‘Queer Eye’ Upholds Liberal Economic Fantasies
The popular show focuses on America’s economic victims, offering help only elites enjoy while avoiding critiques of gross inequality.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/14/2022
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U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses, Upholds for Most Health Workers
The Supreme Court fillets Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate, leaving it to employers and states to act, unless Congress opts to step in and craft a nationwide policy.
Wrong Way CalPERS: Dumping $6 Billion of Private Equity After Struggling to Put Money to Work and Then Increasing Target
CalPERS is trying to do something more obviously nonsensical than usual.
Is Geneva 2022 Munich 1938 Without Chamberlain’s Piece Of Paper? How To Read the US Paper to Russia For Peace For Our Time
Why the US is looking at best mighty unserious in its talks with Russia.
Our Rolling Civil War
The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.
