Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich weighs in on the absolute moral rot within the Trump regime and its corporate cronies. Bill McKibben points out that the…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon writes about the need to restore the capacity for shame as a precondition to reversing the decline of the U.S. Noah Berlatsky…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright comment on the global tilt toward strongman government as the U.S. abandons any pretense of being a…
Generative AI Problem
Dear Canadian Government human: Here are my answers to your points in your survey on Canadian leadership in Generative AI. https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership “accelerate safe adoption of AI across the economy and…
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…
Debt Crisis Grows, Collapse & System Reset Approach
It used to be considered banana republic realms when the debt to GDP ratio of a nation exceeded 60%. Today, the Western nations are running at 100-140% debt to GDP.…
A Big Picture Overview – And An Urgent Warning!
(An open letter to Hrvoje Moric, at Geopolitics & Empire) Excellent discussion, as always, Hrvoje. After four decades and over 100,000 hours of research, studies and writing on geopolitics, political…
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…
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…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Don Moynihan concludes that the U.S. has lost any pretense to being a functioning democracy. And Zachary Beau discusses how Donald Trump is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- John Harwood discusses how Donald Trump's second term in office has been more harmful than even the most dire predictions anticipated. Donald Gutstein calls…
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The University of Oxford has released new research showing that politicians underestimate the public's demand for climate action. Adam Morton discusses how Australia's Labor…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Noah Berlatsky discusses how Donald Trump is imposing a recession on America at large while dispensing obscene riches for his cronies, while Mona…