Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Tim Wu discusses how the richest few have come to dominate our politics (with our health and well-being paying the price), while Ian Welsh…
Assorted content to start your week.- Tim Wu discusses how the richest few have come to dominate our politics (with our health and well-being paying the price), while Ian Welsh…
Assorted content to end your week.- Kaitlin Tosh and Michelle Inez Simon examine how Elon Musk's takeover of X has led to the systematic pushing of right-wing propaganda on users…
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…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Coletto discusses how Canadians from across the political spectrum want to see the Carney Libs prioritize housing construction and economic independence, rather…
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…
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…
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…
Assorted content to end your week.- Ryan Cooper and David Dayen discuss how Donald Trump is managing to combine the worst abuses of every British monarch who helped contribute to…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Katelyn Burns notes that U.S. Republicans have made clear that they're far more aligned with hard-right parties abroad than the balance of their…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Associated Press reports on the World Meteorological Organization's latest bulletin finding that atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached a concentration not seen in hundreds…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Don Moynihan examines the Trump regime's steps to build a police state whose only loyalty is to their mad king, while Andrew Egger…
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…
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…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simone Zhenting Mao discusses how inequality and concentration of wealth are at the root of Canada's economic stagnation. And Robert P. Beschel Jr.…
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…
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…
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…
Assorted content to end your week.- Toby Buckle writes about the role of reactionary centrists in greasing the skids toward fascism, while Owen Jones discusses how that process is playing…
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…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Lurie writes about the Trump regime's Potemkin populism - as well as the increasing speed with which his fabrications are coming undone. Sarah…