To the benefit of Big Pharma, the president’s new executive order on drug costs is missing a key price-lowering mechanism.
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A few weeks ago the historian Perry Anderson published an essay “Regime Change in the West?” in the London Review of Books. Like many of Anderson’s essays this is a wide-ranging splurge full of bon mots and *apercus” delivered from some quasi-Olympian height. My attention was caught, though, by the following couple of sentences which […]
Well, maybe. Who the hell knows what he’ll do. Anyway, tariffs are back to 10% on either side and negotiations will continue.
Note that China got what they wanted, minus 10%—no negotiations until the tariffs are removed.
There will still be a two month trade burp. Ships weren’t leaving China for the US at all, literally zero. Lot of freight companies are about to make a mint, though. So expect some shortages, but nothing worse than Covid, and hopefully lasting less time.
The fundamental problem remains, however, which is that there’s no certainty around any of this, so business people can’t make long term plans, including plans to build or relocate manufacturing. Trump and the US can’t be trusted to stay steady on policy, so avoiding making big plans involving the US makes sense.
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.
The post Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal appeared first on The Intercept.
Doctor Who Season 2 "The Reality War" will premiere simultaneously on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and Disney+ (with Davies dropping some clues).
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
Where are the voices defending the huge benefits that globalisation has brought to the world, asks Matthew Gwyther
There’s no question that artificial intelligence has come a long way in the last few years. And it’s true that many jobs are likely to be replaced by these tools. But I know for a fact that the job I do as CEO can never be done by AI, regardless of how advanced it becomes. The things I do, the heart and soul I pour into my work each and every day—even on weekends—a computer would never match.
Could a machine decide to lay off an entire department based on a vague intuition it forms about the market while it half-listens to an Economist podcast during its morning Peloton ride? I don’t think so. Through years of stress and anxiety, I have built up my sensitivity to the market. This isn’t something that can be captured and replicated by a machine.
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Glaciers are committing piracy at the bottom of the planet
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Author Mike Stark on the 3 greatest revelations he had while writing his new book about starlings
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More than a month ago, I agreed to an offer to be a visiting scholar at a private US university next year. This was no simple matter because of obligations to my own family and (somewhat more unexpectedly) my department. I have made no public announcement on it yet not because I am especially personally […]
As a fragile ceasefire takes hold between India and Pakistan, those living in the affected regions live in fear that the worst may still be to come
Over the last years, I have edited a volume of papers on the question how to make analytical political philosophy more inclusive, with a particular focus on the debates on economic and ecological inequalities. The starting point was the observation that analytical political philosophy has for a long time been criticised for marginalizing (to a […]
Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers. By George Monbiot, adapted from a Bluesky thread, 11th May 2025. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a […]
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What’s in a name? Though readers might be familiar with the work of the Amber Film and Photography Collective — who have documented life and work in the North East since 1968 — fewer can be expected to have considered the meaning of their name. Some might read it as an evocation of the mined […] It’s a big data week for me and today’s post is more of a news information offering rather than a deeper analysis of a topic, which is my usual pattern. However, I discuss in some detail recent appointments to the US Health Administration, some of which were prominent during the early COVID years and received…
The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025 The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be a fire-prone landscape. But sheep, cattle and ponies have made it so. They browse out tree […]
In the Soviet Union, you’d never wish someone ‘S dnem rozhdeniya!’ without a proper present - by Margarita Gokun Silver
Widely discussed in running circles, there’s a place you go when your body gives up and there’s only mental strength left - by Richard Fisher |
