Bogotá’s care blocks program, part of a “feminist urbanist” agenda, addresses women’s labor in the care economy. With Colombia’s new leftist government, the scheme could go national.
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The majority of economic indicators that the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee tracks to identify U.S. recessions are still showing growth. How have these measures behaved around past recessions?
Olive Oyl and I have a couple of good things to report this week. For
starters, we adopted a terrific dog that we’ve fallen in love with.
This post was written for and originally published by the Institute of Network Cultures as part of the Dispatches from Ukraine: Tactical Media Reflections and Responses publication. It also benefited from copy editing by Chloë Arkenbout, and proofreading by Laurence Scherz.
Tackling disinformation and misinformation is a problem that is important, timely, hard… and, in no way new. Throughout history, different forms of propaganda, manipulation, and biased reporting have been present and deployed — consciously or not; maliciously or not — to steer political discourse and to goad public outrage. The issue has admittedly become more urgent lately and we do need to do something about it. I believe, however, that so far we’ve been focusing on the wrong parts of it.
Adding some live drums to the song Slippery Friction
We have been working on a song idea we came up with during a live-stream songwriting session tentatively called "Slippery Friction
Want to kill the oil industry? Just enforce its obligation to cleanup old wells.
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In a remarkable and impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro had this to say: Behind the bonfires that burn it, behind its poisoning, there is […]
In this must-see video, Robert Reich makes the fossil-fuel connections between standing up to Putin and saving the Earth’s climate: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKn69ho9kFc
This is the context of that particular fragment of Vladimir Putin’s announcement:
They [Washington, London and Brussels] have even resorted to the [sic] nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia.
by Brian Czech
If you call yourself a “conservative” these days, what does that tell us? Or, what is it supposed to tell us? Does it mean you’re a Republican, a Tory, or a member of the largest party in the democratic world, the Bharatiya Janata Party? Must you be a particular brand of partisan—maybe a MAGA Republican or a Modi भक्त—to wear the conservative hat?
What about your faith?
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We've been doing live streams of our songwriting sessions from our studio on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.
Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.
Trying to write a theatrical bridge part (Live Stream Clip)
It needs something?
We have a theme song that we've been working on for a film. After arranging the song it still needed something. Something in between the verse and chorus that was way different than what was going on in the song.
Cliff, Rob, and I were in the studio doing a live stream and I thought we could try and test out some ideas.
Ying Chen discusses her work to better understand development, labor and environmental impact in the Global South, focusing in particular on the realities of Chinese economic policy as it has evolved.
Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th September 2022 Soon, the focus will return, and the collapse of many people’s economic prospects will dominate once more. As winter approaches, it will become clear that our politics is spectacularly lacking in answers. […]
From single women’s rented rooms in 1915 to the grounds of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, get a historic look at U.S. workers’ lives with digital library FRASER.
I’ve been focusing on the economics of climate change for over four years now, because it’s the most pressing problem facing humanity, and because economists have done such a god-awful job on it—fooling themselves into regarding an existential threat as a minor cost-benefit problem (Keen 2020; Keen et al. 2022). For circumstantial reasons, I can’t … Continue reading "Back to the history of economic thought: “Keynesian Economics” failed in 1935"
The Truth Behind “Self-Made” Billionaires
Why do we glorify “self-made” billionaires?
Well, being “self-made” is a seductive idea —it suggests that anybody can get to the top if they’re willing to work hard enough. It’s what the American Dream is all about.
If Kylie Jenner can become a “self-made” billionaire at age 21, so can you and I!
Even as wages stay stagnant and wealth inequality grows, it’s a comfort to think that we’re all simply one cosmetics company and some elbow grease away from fortune.
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years ago Saturday, the TV show M*A*S*H debuted. Below is an piece I
created for the 30th anniversary of the show’s finale. Also below: a
sampling of my collection of memorabilia. Although the show was
incredibly popular, my level of fandom/obsession was admittedly unusual,
which is perhaps why I haven’t been able to bring myself to get rid of
these things as of yet. Somewhere I have a trove of drawings of the
characters I made back then, but I can’t find it at the moment.
A local factory was once the largest producer of thorium in the world. This fall, the “radioactive capital of the Midwest” is doing one last cleanup.
Fluctuating incomes can mean families lose and then regain eligibility for food stamps multiple times during a period of years.