Favoring the cultural assimilation of immigrants and reducing the (actual or perceived) distance between immigrants and natives may be at least as important as addressing the potential economic effects of immigration
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness
How the Anglo-American fad of mindfulness bolsters neoliberaism.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden and opioids, Buttigieg interview, Sanders campaign, AOC on Congress, DSA, post-terror planning in the UK, durable goods, CA real estate, RVs in Silicon Valley, mobile and retail, sea level, carbon credits, shade, wildflowers, homelessness, serial killers, graph algo, the Post Office
Beware Billionaires Bearing Gifts
Billionaires’ gifts are too often intended to remake society along their preferred lines.
Daniel Ellsberg on Julian Assange’s Espionage Charges
The US has added new charges againat Julian Assange that represent a threat to journalists.
How Dogs Help Keep Multiracial Neighborhoods Socially Segregated
Despite mythology to the contrary, dogs are not ambassadors.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/23/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Beyond trade war with China, Biden, Sanders, Iowa caucus, “divisiveness,” jobless claims, manufacturing, new home sales, trucking deterioriates, robot trucks, Tesla plunges, Apple services, Amazon, infrastructure debacle, Friday climate strikes, Jack London, dopamine
How Trump’s ‘America First’ Trade Strategy Is Accelerating America’s Decline
Why Trump ‘s narrowly nationalistic trade agenda, combined with his nostalgia for a 1950s style economy, will undermine U.S. economic prosperity and U.S. global hegemony.
Is Theresa May Finally Over?
Is the bell finally tolling for Theresa May?
FAA Won’t Say When Boeing 737 Max Might Fly Again; Foreign Regulators Uppity
The FAA is a big casualty of the Boeing 737 Max debacle.
Documenting the Train Wreck: Atmospheric CO2 Is Now Higher Than Ever in Human History, and Rising
CO2 levels have crossed a threshold that ought to be causing alarms, yet the finding was just another news story. What can be done to cut through the climage complacency?
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, impeachment, 2018 voter turnout, DCCC, Apple, Facebook and marijuana, China’s rare earths, contract law, bees and 5G, virtual pipelines, feral horses, #MedicareForAll House Budget Committee, philanthropy (so-called), Appalachia, Fortnite
Bankruptcy: An Option for Taxi Drivers Crushed by Medallion Loans?
Contrary to what the NYT asserts, taxi drivers who can get competent legal advice might find bankruptcy allows them to escape onerous medallion loan burdens – and keep their medallions.
