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The economic components that have served as the dehumanizing foundation to Israel’s current “plausible” genocide share many similarities with poor Americans and migrant laborers who are treated as disposable in the US.

For millions of new parents, medical debt is now as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers.

Israel has yet another childish temper tantrum over the prospect of not getting its way, here over Palestine membership advancing in the UN.

The Collective West scrambles to replace Russia as a source of nuclear fuel and services.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics: (1) New swing state polling, Hillary Clinton on the ignorance of youth, Trump will love jail, potential nasal spray, and you’ll never guess from whom. ~

Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.

At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. 

How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.

There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics , Antisemitism Awareness Act, Trump’s Bragg trial, the perfect cheese sauce ~

How trade liberalization cut Africa’s modest production capacities, industry and food security.