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Friday, November 7, 2025
Amazon Arrogance Backfires, Tries to Smear Incoming FTC Chair Lina Khan as Needing to Recuse Herself Because She Knows Them Too Well
Amazon looks to be having a meltdown over new FTC chief Lina Khan. Good.
Inflation Is Not What We Need to Worry About: the Risk of Major Collapse in the Private Sector Is What Should Be Troubling Us Right Now
Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.
What’s the Carbon Footprint of a Wind Turbine?
Many studies have found that the wind turbine beats fossil fuels handsomely , at least in carbon costs. But is that the whole story?
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/30/2021
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Pentagon Papers Case Fifty Years On: Some Personal Reflections
Fifty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court allowed the publication of the Pentagon Papers to proceed.
Experts Warn Florida Tower Disaster Is Climate Emergency ‘Wake-Up Call’
One local risk assessment specialist said the building’s collapse “could be a canary-in-the-coal-mine-type event” as sea levels rise.
The Data Privacy Paradox and Digital Demand
Data privacy worrywarts appear to be the most promiscuous. What gives?
Health Insurance Tricks and Traps: Using Cheap at Home Colon Cancer Test Exposes Insureds to Big Colonoscopy Bill
Why colonoscopy testing looks an awful lot like neoliberal rent extraction, as least as practiced in the US.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/29/2021
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Myths, Lobbies Foster Competitive International Corporate Tax Cutting
Bad ideology, kept alive by lobbying and PR, has fueled an unproductive corporte tax race to the bottom. Is the tide finally turning?
Tourism Begins to Recover in Europe, But Is It Just a Dead Cat Bounce?
Warning signs are already flashing that Europe’s reopening to the outside world may be short lived.
