Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Trenz Pruca examines how tax policy biased toward the wealthy has exacerbated the U.S.' already-toxic economic inequality. And Dean Baker interviews Joseph Stiglitz about…
Greg Fingas
Musical interlude
Deftones - Infinite Source
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Lane Brown examines how key elements of cognitive ability may be degrading - including due to constant exposure to personalities selected for their vociferous…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- G. Elliott Morris examines what voters want out of a political party independent of the platforms being presented to them - and finds…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Marisa Kabas discusses the moral rot in corporate, access-based media - which in turn looks to be a contributor to the decline of human…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Insider cat.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Moira Doneghan writes that the Jeffrey Epstein e-mails released over the past week provide a window into the anti-morality of the wealthy and…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Connie Loizos warns that the growth of "buy now, pay later" financing for the essentials of life parallels the wider use of unsustainable debt…
Musical interlude
Grum feat. Natalie Shay - Stay
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Prem Sikka discusses how any prospect of meaningful change for the better depends on prying power out of the hands of the wealthiest…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Daniel Drache and Marc Froese offer a reminder that we know all too well what a Donald Trump "trade deal" looks like - making…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Helpful cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts report on Antonio Guterres' warning at the start of the COP30 climate conference that we can't afford more…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Tim Wu discusses how the richest few have come to dominate our politics (with our health and well-being paying the price), while Ian Welsh…
Musical interlude
Matthew Good Band - Going All The Way
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Kaitlin Tosh and Michelle Inez Simon examine how Elon Musk's takeover of X has led to the systematic pushing of right-wing propaganda on users…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Slushy cat.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…