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Saturday, June 28, 2025
Michael Mann: We’re Already On Our Way to “Blowing Past” 1.5 Degrees Global Warming
How global warming is increasing at a faster rate than most realize.
Wolf Richter: It’s the Banks Again
Mr. Market is worried about banks, particularly European ones.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/22/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, Sanders 2020, property taxes and the midterms, Latino voters, small donors, redistricting, national activity, Sears, Xmas containers, Softbank and the Saudis, drones, Flint water, the Rio Grande, falling paychecks, the brain, philosophy
Right to Repair Redux: The Economist Gets with the Program, While Alas, Apple Continues to Lag
Latest updates on the right to repair, discussing crucial skirmishes in the ongoing war on waste. The Economist recognizes the important issue, and US DHS supports Apple’s spurious, anti-repair claims.
Hooray! Met Our Sixth Goal, On to Our Seventh: More Original Reporting
Original reporting takes concerted effort and sometimes hard dollar costs. Please invest to help us to more to root out what powerful and monied people hope to keep hidden.
How Private Equity Bankrupted Seven Major Grocery Chains for Fun and Profit
Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
Man Whose Mexico Beach House Was One of Last Standing After Hurricane Michael Calls Out Climate Denier Politicians
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Tom Engelhardt: The Unhappy 17th Anniversary of the Afghan War
Looking back on 17 counterproductive years in Afghanistan.
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A new donor challenge! Will you join us?
Plastic Watch: Recycling Woes
Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.
Jeff Epstein: Naked Capitalism Led Me to MMT, and Its Commentariat Made Me a Better Writer
How Naked Capitalism and its readers provided political education.
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