Today’s Water Cooler: AOC at the border, and open thread.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?
The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.
Takers and Makers: Who Are the Real Value Creators?
Why stories from “value creators” should be taken with a fistful of salt.
Brexit Radicals
Looking for cheery news on Brexit? You’ll have to look awfully hard.
Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington on How Shareholder Value Theory Rewards the Undeserving
How William Lazonick persuaded pols and pundits that the shareholder value theory was bad for business and society.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporariy semi-open thread.
Plastic Watch: G20 Issues Pathetic Declaration
G20 issues Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, a voluntary plastic management plan so inadequate the plastic industry endorsed it immediately.
Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages
Climate disasters in India are fueled by its resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption policies, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty.
How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy
With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have gotten serious about organizing.
Escape(d) from New York
We are now officially out of New York.
Design Genius Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Leaving Behind Crapified Products That Cannot Be Repaired
The departure of Jony Ive gives Apple the chance to reboot its design philosophy to embrace reliability and repairability.
Taxcast: The Corporate Tax Haven Index, Solving the World’s Broken Tax System
This taxcast examines the Tax Justice Network’s new Corporate Tax Haven Index for what’s wrong with the taxation system and how to fix it.
