Our species is facing the interconnected global crises of global warming, mass species extinction, and exhaustion of the earth. Global warming is evident and needs no further proof that it is real. If you are in doubt, you can easily find all sorts of science-based descriptions of this crisis. Widespread —>> read more –>>
The present Medicare Advantage (MA) offerings by private insurance began in 1999 as an alternative to traditional Medicare health insurance for seniors. Today, over half of all Medicare recipients are enrolled through this system. The funds that support MA comes from Medicare. “We estimate that Medicare spends approximately 22 percent —>> read more –>>
Ben Casselman wrote this piece in the 1.10.2025 NYTimes: “Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?” The article cites the following as evidence of the decline of economists’ influence: Trump’s tariff plans, immigration, free trade, failure to foresee the global financial meltdown of 2008, —>> read more –>>
The 12.26.2024 issue of The London Review of Books includes Eliot Weinberger’s stunning piece on the Trump presidency, “Incoming!“. It begins: “They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips. They came from professional football and World Wrestling Entertainment. —>> read more –>>
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