This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett discuss why the world can’t afford the rich. And Cory Doctorow points out that class-based advocacy for better material conditions tends to be a political winner even in the U.S. – but that it’s not generally presented as an option by
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Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Himelfarb reviews Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism as a valuable account of the myths and rationalizations underlying the propagation of inequality to serve the uber-rich. Cory Doctorow highlights how the attack on Social Security by Republicans and their donors represents a form of class
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Arianna Johnson reports on new research showing how COVID-19 can continue to affect organ function long after the lungs have healed. Philip Finkelstein calls out the lack of any effective response to the widespread and continuing risk of long COVID. Erin Prater examines
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on Greta Thunberg’s warning that a failure to stop burning fossil fuels amounts to a death sentence for people living in poverty – which would be a much more powerful message if the denial of environmental disaster and devaluation of
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Assorted content to end your week. – David Slater and Charles Rusnell write about the unconscionable lack of any meaningful discussion of the climate breakdown in Alberta’s provincial election even as much of the province has been ablaze and/or facing extreme air quality warnings. Brad Plumer reports on a new
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque writes about the implications of facing a deliberate decline in both environmental and economic well-being for the sole purpose of facilitating the short-term extraction of profits. Daniel Gilbert, Todd Frankel and Joseph Menn report on Silicon Valley Bank’s choice to discard
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David Moscrop discusses how the Trudeau Libs have chosen to funnel money to cutthroat corporate consultants rather than building a functional public service. Alex Kerner follows up by pointing out how that choice reflects the class politics of a neoliberal state. And
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Catherine Albright et al. study how the wide transmission of COVID-19 – due in no small part to the “let ‘er rip” mindset of far too many governments – has facilitated the development of new variants which escape existing immunity and treatments. And Fisher
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Emily Henderson discusses new research showing the harm COVID-19 does to the central nervous system. And Stuart Layt reports on a new study suggesting that it damages the DNA in people’s hearts (rather than merely causing inflammation as an ordinary flu virus would).
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kaylyn Whibbs reports on the entirely justified concerns of parents whose children have been unable to receive a COVID booster due to provincial neglect. And Dana Smith discusses how polio has managed to make a resurgence in the U.S. as the same
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ezra Cheung reports on research showing the increasing severity of the Omicron BA.2 variant for children in Hong Kong, while David Axe discusses the similar pattern observed in Europe. And Jesse Feith points out the connection between long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Vidal discusses how the results of the Glasgow climate summit represents a failure by our leaders to act seriously in the face of a closing window to avert catastrophe, while George Monbiot writes that there’s no choice but for citizens to
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board discusses the reality that the end of the age of oil is near no matter how many petropoliticians try to operate in denial. Carl Meyer reports on the oil lobby’s attempts to turn the pursuit of
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Leyland Cecco discusses how a combination of feckless government and decades of carefully-stoked anti-science sentiment has turned Alberta into North America’s COVID-19 hot spot, while Max Fawcett writes that Jason Kenney’s response has been the picture of cowardice. – Ediriweera Desapriya, Parisa
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – John Klein points out how Doug Ford’s combination of abject failure and laughable deflection in response to the avoidable spread of COVID-19 is par for the course among Canada’s conservative premiers. And Graham Thomson discusses Jason Kenney’s opportunistic use of the pandemic
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bryan Borzykowski recognizes that many Canadian families are weathering the COVID-19 crisis only by taking on more debt – though it’s worth questioning whether the burden should fall on individuals to dig their way out from under it, rather than receiving systemic relief.
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeet Heer writes about the class war already emerging in competing responses to the coronavirus epidemic. Ricardo Tranjan makes the case for rent forgiveness as part of COVID-19 relief based on the reality as to who owns the bulk of Canada’s private
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Derek Thompson reports on Denmark’s wage subsidies which are finally being mimicked by other countries including Canada. And Duncan Cameron points out how the Libs’ early response fell far short of the mark. – Rachel Giese points out how the coronavirus response shows
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Assorted content to end your week. – Mike Konczal offers (PDF) a framework for responding to the coronavirus pandemic from a U.S. perspective. And the CCPA is providing ample analysis of the economic and social impacts of COVID-19. – Dakshana Bascaramurty discusses how the pandemic is revealing and exacerbating Canada’s
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Clarke writes about the war on people living in poverty arising out of needless austerity: The OCAP years have seen the abandonment of social housing by governments, the elimination of the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP), Tory cutbacks that compare to those of
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