Key public officials are abusing their position if they keep the severity of their Covid-19 illness under wraps.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Legitimacy crisis vibe growing stronger… .
Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stem COVID-19 transmission triggered vast migration of the poor.
Why Can’t Everyone in This Country Get Free COVID-19 Treatment?
The US is well into the Covid-19 crisis, yet most citizens are at risk of big bills if they seek testing and care.
The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
A detailed look at the Green Deal: bold goals, with a shortage of money, transition plans, and social democracy.
The Coronavirus Depression Requires A New Approach to Budgeting
Coronavirus spending illustrates the foolishness of legislators believing their own numbers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 tracker, new national poll, Biden on #COVID19, Biden backer: Sanders an “a*****e”, Cuomo bubble, Sanders on Wisconsin primary, Sanders and the black vote, Trump popularity, manufacturing, employment, forests, soil, hospital beds, vaping, essential workers
Informal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus
Not surprisingly, people who don’t have regular jobs will be very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. And there are a lot of them.
Coronavirus: More Wheels Coming Off
Some scattered but nevertheless telling signs of coronavirus impact.
The First Victims of the Oil Price War
Why Russia has the upper hand in the oil price war, and what that might mean for US shale players.
Local Covid-19 Report and Infection Modeling
More efforts to understand how efforts to contain Covid-19 might or might not be working.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/31/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19, new national poll, Biden steps on another rake, Sanders, Pelosi and SALT, vote-by-mail, consumer confidence, manufacturing, oil glut, air cargo, Nextdoor, ventilators, medieval lead pollution, gardening, nasal swabs, Darwin Awards for social distancing, Gannet lay-offs, podcasts slow, private equity and hospitals, Egyptian baking
Alejandro Nadal, a Giant in Global Conservation
A tribute to Alejandro Nadal, who fought for elephants and against wildlife trafficking and environmenal degredation.
