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…
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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…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Coyne recognizes that there's no point in pretending that trade negotiations with the U.S. under the control of a mad king can…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonn Elledge discusses how the right in the UK (like in the U.S. and Canada) is building its public messaging around explicit racism and…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Noah Berlatsky writes about the dangers of treating the existence of marginalized groups - rather than the bigots seeking to dehumanize them - as…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Garrett Graff writes about the importance of good character as the ultimate check on the abuse of power - even as the Trump regime…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Thanksgiving reading.- David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher write about the 1970s propaganda campaign used to normalize capitalist control in the U.S. And Luke Savage discusses…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Cole Nowicki and Casey Michel each review Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage as a chronicle of how tech giants and their uber-wealthy principals have fallen…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Liz Dye writes that the only insurrection occurring in the U.S. is the Trump regime's attempt to overthrow democracy. Jeremy Berg highlights the need…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Kelly Hayes writes that the only emergency that's developed under the Trump regime is the atmosphere of fear being imposed by a gratuitously violent…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Sirota writes that the sources of America's descent into authoritarianism can be traced readily to the longstanding trend toward the consolidation of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ezra Klein discusses why nobody in the U.S. can afford to pretend that the Trump regime is normal or acceptable, while Brittlestar calls out…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Nils Gilman discusses how a transition to a clean and sustainable economy will require a fundamental change in existing power dynamics - meaning…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Dan Kennedy weighs in on the effect of two-tiered pricing which effectively freezes the working class out of mass culture. Vass Bednar discusses…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Daniel Ziblatt writes about the dismal history of past efforts to collaborate and negotiate with authoritarians. And Stuart Benson discusses how Mark Carney's lack…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Freddy Brewster reports on a new study finding that the corporate media has refused to mention the business class' greed and profit-taking as…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tim Dickinson laments that so many corporations, universities and other entities with the resources to stand up to Donald Trump are instead choosing…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Amanda Marcotte examines the abusive father complex that somehow forms the basis for a large part of Donald Trump's support. Erica Green calls out…