Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Robert Reich examines how the uber-wealthy have undermined any pretense of decision-making in the public interest - and how political financing rules and more…
Fossil Fuels
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Oliver Milman reports on a new study showing that the U.S. has inflicted $10 trillion in climate damage just since 1990, with China ranking…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jan-Werner Muller discusses Pete Hegseth's development of a nihilistic death cult. Dave Levitin comments on the connection between the elite choice to keep…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Krugman notes that Donald Trump has upended the theory that presidential influence on the economy is overstated, as every new difficulty facing…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Mona Charen writes that Donald Trump's war in Iran can't be explained by any motive other than a sheer ego trip. Steven Beschloss…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Adam King discusses several new studies showing that wealth inequality is only continuing to balloon in Canada. And Jared Walker and Silas Xuereb rightly…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Alex Nguyen examines the petro-imperialism which is being inflicted on the world by the Trump administration. And David Dayen writes that the Iran war…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Thomas Unner discusses how Olof Palme's candour offers a needed lesson for Mark Carney and other leaders facing Donald Trump's threats. Patrick Lennox…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Owen Jones writes that a stunning Green by-election win in the UK can be traced to their offering meaningful hope that things can get…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Anand Giridharadas writes that the most important takeaway from the Epstein files is the existence of the "Epstein class" which considers itself beyond…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Wallace examines China's massive - if messy - renewable energy revolution which stands to make fossil fuels obsolete in the very near future.…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Adrienne Tanner comments on how Canada has taken on unacceptable risks in accepting industry-funded "research" as a substitute for an accurate assessment of the…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump is a threat to civilization (in the form of any social order other than one based on…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Seva Gunitsky discusses how the U.S. is committing hegemonic suicide. Simon Tisdall is about as optimistic as one can be about the Trump regime…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Last discusses how many of the harms being inflicted by the Trump regime can never fully be repaired, while Anne Applebaum writes about…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joyce Vance writes about the purge of any trace of decency in the U.S. right which has found its ultimate expressio in Donald…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Bill McKibben writes that Donald Trump's level of impunity now includes blatant piracy as the U.S. steals oil to try to lay the groundwork…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jonathan Last discusses how the Trump regime is carrying out campaigns of murder based on known lies with both the purpose and…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonathan Freedland discusses how the Trump regime is systematically corrupting law, government and morality alike, while A.R. Moxon discusses the challenges of trying to…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman discuss the neo-royalism emerging as the Trump regime tries to turn the enrichment of a self-proclaimed god-king into a…