The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock seems to be fading....when the urgency is high.
Social Policy
I’ve written a blog post about what Canada’s recent federal budget did for housing and homelessness (which wasn’t very much). Here’s my analysis: https://nickfalvo.ca/canadas-2023-federal-budget/
Please support a bill in Congress that would block federal agencies from using facial recognition to track and misidentify millions of people.
Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens...
I’ve written a book chapter on subsidized rental housing and homelessness under Alberta’s first UCP government. My ‘top 5’ overview of the chapter is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/subsidized-rental-housing-and-homelessness-under-albertas-first-ucp-government/
On the cultural and political factors that keep the war stokers in power in the US.
A newfangled school voucher scheme, "education success accounts," was too much even for the conservative Virginia House to swallow.
Tackling the climate crisis effectively requires a shift from market fetishism to a more fair and sustainable global economy
The bank panic is proving to be an exercise in class warfare that may well wind up further strengthening the right.
The US trying even harder to tout the virtues of its ideas of democracy is not winning friends or influencing people.