By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark,...
By Lambert Strether. Patient readers, there will be no orts and scraps today, as I must yet again get my arms around the brood of vipers that is DOGE. And I too am glad that comments have returned. Be excellent...
Article here. When I read this, I’m reminded: In 2015, during the Obama administration, a new safety rule was adopted requiring electronically controlled pneumatic brakes to be installed on all high-hazard flammable unit trains by 2023, allowing them to brake...
In a step forward for long-suffering Kentucky Retirement Systems (now Kentucky Public Pension Authority) beneficiaries, attorneys for so-called Tier 3 Plaintiffs beat back a scheme by Attorney General Russell Coleman to settle claims against private equity kingpins KKR and Blackstone...
Dear patient readers, Please read this post in full before commenting. We are reopening comments on this and some recent posts. While we do very much appreciate your thoughtfulness and insights and therefore would very much prefer to keep comments...
Too many capybaras: Rodents face vasectomies in luxury Argentine community El Pais This Robot Dog Is Making Its Off-Broadway Theater Debut CNET Don’t Panic, But the Chances Of That Asteroid Hitting Earth In 2032 Just Almost Doubled 2 Oceans Vibe...
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes. Originally published at EcoWatch. According to a new report by independent research group Climate Central, the climate crisis has driven weeks of hot temperatures in West Africa’s “cocoa belt,” where roughly 70% of the cocoa in...
How Much Is Your Kidney Worth? Noema What’s up with capitalism? The Next Recession ‘Fascist Organizations in America’ by Murray Braun from Class Struggle (C.L.S.). Vol. 4 Nos. 1, 2, & 3. January, February, & March, 1934. Revolution’s Newsstand. An in...
As Washington begins to contemplate its exit from Project Ukraine, European officials continue to flee from reality. That’s somewhat understandable considering all the water Europe has taken on since the war began nearly three years ago and how the continent’s...
By Kyoji Fukao, Chairman of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and University Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, and Ivan Deseatnicov, an assistant professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE...
