Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Where the Beltway Mainstream Thinks Obama’s Performance Could Have Been Improved
Mainstream critiques of Obama show Biden’s degrees of freedom.
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
While every U.S. county has seen hunger rates rise, the steepest jumps have been in some of the wealthiest counties, where overall affluence obscures the tenuous finances of low-wage workers.
Russia and China Are Sending Biden a Message: Don’t Judge Us or Try to Change us. Those Days Are Over
The initial Biden foreign policy backfires are leading to even more cooperation betwen China and Russia.
Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2021
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Incomplete and Indecisive USPS Board Flounders and Awaits Direction
Despite Biden moving to fill open USPS board seats, don’t get your hopes up.
Ships, Chips, and IPs: The High Costs of Tight Coupling
Tight coupling explains how innocent bystanders wind up suffering under neoliberal regimes: unwillingness to incur costs to increase safety.
Why Won’t Doctors Take Cash?
Are my weird run-ins with doctors over “self pay” just anomalies or are they symptoms of other changes in business practices?
U.S. Joins “Rules-Based World” on Afghanistan
Why the US appears to be retreating from the idea it can remake the world to its own liking, at least in Afghanistan.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2021
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