Saturday, June 14, 2025

Pandemic Erects Barriers for Prized Bloc of Voters in Nursing Homes, Senior Facilities

How voters in retirement facilities are being disenfranchised.

Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?

Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, brunch ran a little late. More soon! –lambert UPDATE And then my mailer, as it does, decided not to send me my research, after behaving nicely for some days. Aaargh! UPDATE All done, sadly leaving far too much on the cutting room floor…. Bird Song of the Day […]

‘A Definite and Sustained Increase’: Europe Leads Record Single-Day Worldwide Covid-19 Infection Surge

Europe reported nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday—more than in the U.S., India, and Brazil, the world’s Covid-19 case leaders

Links 10/9/2020

CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost Says She’s Not in Charge and Lies to the Board About Receiving a Warning from the Fair Political Practices Commission

CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost doesn’t even bother to lie well.

New York City Seeks to Shortchange Teachers on $900 Million of Back Pay

Another sign of increasing budget problems in New York City.

Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis

The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Good morning! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: Unmistakable rise in all regions now. Ugh. Here are the Swing States as I […]

Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century

Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?

Links 10/8/2020

Latest Nobel Prize in Chemistry Demonstrates How the US Patent Office Screws Inventors

A high profile example of the train wreck called the US patent process.

Trump’s New Healthcare Executive Order

Trump believes he protected people with pre-existing conditions and eliminated surprise billing via an executive order. He did not.

Down to the Wire, Last Chance for Our 2020 Fundraiser!

Last call! Help make our 2020 fundraiser the best ever!

Live Blog: Vice-Presidential Debate in Salt Lake City, UT

Pence v. Harris