Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Monica Potts writes that Americans' dissatisfaction with their economy has never been about vibes or temporary price spikes, but reflects a lack of both…
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Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Bill McGuire discusses what the next few decades figure to look like as what's currently considered extreme heat becomes all too normal. And Andrew…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Simon Mundy examines the growing recognition that the combination of solar power and batteries - both of which are plummeting in price - makes…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Carl Meyer explains how the Carney Libs are looking to push resource extraction at the expense of social and environmental realities to an…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rita Bhowmick writes about the importance of care services both in keeping people healthy and ensuring equitable work opportunities. And Steven Lewis examines the…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Catherine Rampell highlights how Donald Trump's economy is divided starkly between profiteering insiders and exploited chumps. Andrew Feinberg reports on Trump's plans to issue…
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…
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Mark Kreidler notes that people from around the globe are staying away from the U.S. in droves - due to both the risk…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Ana Marie Cox discusses how Jeffrey Epstein was able to amass influence and commit atrocities by sharing the discriminatory and dehumanizing values with…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Victor Pickard writes about the multiple layers of media capture which have collectively undermined access to accurate information across U.S. sources. - Ajit Niranian…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- John Ripton writes about the connection between the egregious concentration of wealth and the rise of fascist politics. And Virginia Heffernan points out…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Will Snell points out the connection between extreme wealth and unconscionable impunity as epitomized by Jeffrey Epstein and his elite co-conspirators. And Joan Wallach…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Lurie is rightly appalled by the Trump regime's nihilism, combining insatiable greed for whatever it can seize with a willingness to destroy…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Simon writes that Donald Trump's plans to kill off clean energy are futile in the face of its inexorable progress in price and…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Thomas Seal and Derek DeCloet warn about the threat the U.S. poses to Canada - including the risk of becoming even more of…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Miguel Xavier discusses the need for social democrats to stop limiting their goals to preserving the status quo, and instead make the case for…
Thanks to the UCP, Alberta measles epidemic is back in the news, along with Alberta’s chaotic packed hospitals
Turns out having a governing party dominated by MAGA-influenced anti-vaxxers and ideological privatizers like Premier Danielle Smith isn’t actually good for health care! Who could have seen that coming? Alberta’s…
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…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Kara Miller interviews Ray Madoff about the tax dodges that allow the richest Americans to hoard wealth without contributing to the society that…