Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tracy Fuller talks to Emily Oster about the process people can follow in minimizing COVID risks in the absence of full information. And…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David MacDonald, Lindsay McLaren, Katherine Scott and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood each examine the Libs’ fiscal update and find that headlines about progressive priorities…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Smithson examines data from 45 countries confirming that any attempt to play off COVID-19 suppression against economic activity is based on a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Shannon Vanraes reports that Manitoba has become the latest jurisdiction reduced to triaging patients in their cars due to a lack of resources…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The CCPA Monitor interviews William Carroll about the fossil fuel elite’s control over far too much of Canadian politics, and the barrier that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin offer an introduction to what they anticipate will be the Turbulent Twenties, while noting the need for the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chuck Collins asks why the billionaires who have seen their fortunes continue to grow during a pandemic aren’t giving anything back to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ari Rabin-Havt argues that any available means of treating COVID-19 need to be viewed as public goods to be made available to all,…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christine Berry offers a reminder that protecting public health is absolutely necessary for us to see any economic recovery in the wake…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David A. Green, J. Rhys Kesselman, Lindsay Tedds discuss some of the complications involved in designing a basic income system. And David…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amadeus Narbutt discusses the uncertain effect of the coronavirus on the global balance of power. And Adam Tooze notes that the U.S.’ damaging…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey writes about the long-term effects of the millennial generation facing a second economic shock in the years which would normally…
Global Health System Failure – It’s Not What You Think
Who do we turn to for reliable health information? That is one of the critical questions we need to ask now. (Another is, when is it justified to suspend all…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Mike Konczal offers (PDF) a framework for responding to the coronavirus pandemic from a U.S. perspective. And the CCPA is providing ample analysis…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robert Reich highlights how the long-term costs of failing to invest in a just transition and a healthy society far outweigh the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot recognizes that our climate policy needs to be based on maximizing our shift to a sustainable society, not on trying to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz points out that a few gross numbers based on top-end wealth can’t change the reality that Donald Trump’s economy has…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib discuss Donald Trump’s holiday menu of serving the rich and feasting on the poor, while Paul Krugman…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Steven Strauss examines the catastrophic results of the U.S. Republicans’ obsession with handouts to the rich and austerity for everybody else. And…