- The US is a failed state (leadership matters) and an exception essay on the collaborators (think Nazi’s) who enable Trump
- This is how to frame China’s geopolitical moves… but Trump — who has no leadership abilities — is not the one to respond to them.
- One-quarter of universities are “walking dead”
- An excellent paper on how the arrival of water meters affects water consumption (23% drop) and the distribution of those costs (poorer areas pay £23 more per year — much less than feared).
- American stocks are up for strange reasons, but its safety net is failing workers, and the real economy may crash from its sugar high.
- An interview with the founder of Bellingcat, an “investigative activist” group that’s uncovered Russian crimes in Syria and shooting down MH17. Related: How totalitarian countries are attacking free media and journalists at home.
- Apartheid had its roots in protecting white labor from (more competitive) black labor.
- Monopoly power allows discrimination to persist
- Small companies are failing at record rates worldwide under the influences of C19, trade disputes, market power and political interference. That’s bad for innovation.
- Peer review has all the problems typical to biased humans
H/T to AC