Why Catherine the Great’s lessons for dealing with Turks are still operative.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Revillaging: Looking to Our Roots as We Redesign Towns and Cities
Revillaging as a way to improve communities by improving daily life.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/6/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I had a brief power failure at 1:55PM, after which the modems were confused and unhappy; I’ll do a bit of clean-up now, including the plant! –lambert UPDATE All done! Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist […]
China Could Start A New Solar Price War
Why cheaper solar panels out of China might not be an unalloyed blessing.
Airlines: Bleeding from Coronavirus, and Worse to Come
Coronavirus carnage continues, particularly at bankruptcy-prone airlines.
Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
Is the seamy side of fracking the only side?
Coronavirus: Kids About as Likely as Adults to Become Infected; What Happens When School Closures Become Widespread?
Coronavirus is already causing large-scale school closures abroad; what happens when that becomes the new normal in the US?
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/5/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
Chief Justice John Roberts Denounces Chuck Schumer’s ‘Threatening’ Remarks About Gorsuch and Kavanaugh
Chuck Schumer channeled his inner Trump. The results were not pretty.
New MH17 Leak – Dutch Prosecutors Have Received No US Satellite Evidence of the Shoot-Down by a Buk Missile
Yves here. Helmer is still keeping tabs on MH17 developments. By John Helmer, Moscow. Twitter: @bears_with. Originally published at Dances With Bears A new document, leaked from the files of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in The Netherlands, reveals that Dutch prosecutors told the Australian, Belgian and Ukrainian representatives on the team, that the US […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Key dates coming fast now, so I added some counters: Some of the next primaries. (I picked the […]
