Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Galbraith offers a reality check to anybody counting on an immediate U.S. economic bounceback in the midst of an ongoing pandemic:…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Jonathan Watts reports on new research showing that even existing worst-case scenarios may underestimate the severity of the climate crisis. Anna Kanduth and…
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…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Aaron Wherry discusses the dramatically different effects of the COVID-19 pandemic based on inequalities in income and privilege. And Katherine Scott draws on…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that the UK Cons are using their own botched Brexit as an excuse to set up a disaster capitalist’s paradise.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Edward Lempinen reports on new research showing that the response to COVID-19 in just six countries has prevented 500 million infections and…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brink Lindsey discusses what the coronavirus pandemic has revealed about the failings of both libertarian philosophy, and the public sector apparatus left after…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Yaryna Serkez highlights how COVID-19 has both exploited and exacerbated the U.S.’ existing inequalities. And Alexander Panetta writes about the perpetuation of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Stephen Long writes that one of the key economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic has been to push people into underemployment. And CBC…
The new normal
“Oh, the humanity,” cried Herbert Morrison, as he watched in horror as the giant airship, the Hindenburg, burst into flames at its mooring. The year was 1937, and Morrison’s words…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Niikiforuk discusses why we shouldn’t count on a COVID-19 vaccine to emerge at all – nor to fully resolve the dangers…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig writes about the policies which were needed to sustain us through the COVID-19 crisis so far – but whose success can…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot opines that the UK has ceased to be a functioning democracy as unelected people exercise unchecked power. And Bruce Livesey wonders…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Reich writes about the end of any pretense that Donald Trump was acting as a president rather than a self-serving social…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Cadesky writes about the psychology behind adherence to – and deviation from – the social distancing rules needed to keep us all…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis into a new normal, rather than trying to return to…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Fiona Harvey writes that as we rebuild after the coronavirus pandemic, there’s no reason to pretend that prosperity requires continued reliance on greenhouse…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Hilton talks to several progressive economists about the opportunities for change as we manage and emerge from the coronavirus crisis. And…