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Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Donald Trump and the Interests of Capital
Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns & Money: “The first thing to always understand about the modern economy is the post New Deal creation of a functioning and stable economy was meant to help capital. Bringing workers into a junior partnership with the state was to help capital.”
An Insult to Life Itself?
Maia Mindel: “Technology doesn’t actually displace jobs it displaces some, if not all, of the tasks that those jobs do. So when people say ‘70% of jobs are at risk of automation’, what they actually mean is ‘70% of jobs contain tasks that could plausibly be automated’.”
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle
Sam Deutsch: “And it’s not just the MTA - buses in New Jersey are seeing significantly faster travel times …”
Monday, 24 March 2025
Speculations at the Outer Bounds of the Constitutional Order
Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: “The American fiscal economy consists of trillions of dollars being drawn out of the states and then being pumped right back into them as contracts, grants, various kinds of federal support for things like roads and infrastructure and finally programs of direct support like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.”
Friday, 21 March 2025
Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening?
Paul Krugman: “It’s not just the tariffs and Trump’s obvious support for Putin. I don’t know if Americans realize how big a shock it has been that European citizens are being arrested and detained by ICE. Suddenly it’s clear that America is not an ally, may not even be a democracy, and Europe must look after itself.”
Friday, 7 March 2025
Searching for settings in all the wrong places
Joe Rosensteel, Six Colors: “You might have a free trial of Apple TV+ from the purchase of new Apple hardware, or something else. Apple has decided that this is the second most important function of visiting Settings.”
America is at its weakest since the Civil War
Walter H. White Jr., The Contrarian: “One of the critical aspects of diplomacy is integrity.”
Thursday, 6 March 2025
It’s Up to Europe Now
Paul Krugman: “Like tens of millions of Americans, I hate the fact that we need to appeal to foreign leaders to do the right thing …”
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
European leaders brace for their ‘five-minutes-to-midnight’ nightmare summit
Clea Caulcutt, Jacopo Barigazzi, Gabriel Gavin and Giovanna Faggionato, Politico: “We have switched off the sun and now we need to pay everyday for the heating … Every day you need to pay for ammunition, at least for several years …”
Sunday, 16 February 2025
Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space
Hannah Devlin, The Guardian: “Einstein rings are a powerful tool for astronomers because they reveal objects that would otherwise be obscured from view and indicate the mass of the intermediate galaxy – including any hidden mass in the form of dark matter.”