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"Impact litigation" is an invaluable activist tool. When lawmakers enact a rule that violates your constitution, you sue to have the law overturned. That means that you can reverse bad
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Hey, Americans! This is your periodic reminder that you have the worst healthcare in the developed world. Today, my orthopaedist prescribed generic Celebrex for my bilateral hip arthritis. It's an
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In the early days of the pandemic, the UK pursued a plan that was developed for a less contagious, less lethal flu pandemic, which proposed deliberately allowing the disease to
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The USPS is about to declare bankruptcy. It's at the center of the longstanding plans for disaster recover and has been since the Cold War. It's the only institution that
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US politics over the past 40 years have been dominated by a coalition of plutocrats and evangelicals, whose priorities are weirdly out of step with anything resembling Biblical Christianity. It
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Most of the world's rich countries handled the economic crisis of pandemic by paying workers' wages if employers would keep them on the payroll, so that when the crisis passes
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"Binding arbitration" is a system for resolving legal disputes without going to court. It was invented to help large corporations of equal bargaining power amicably and quickly resolve their contract
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A lot of my writer friends have been alarmed by the @internetarchive's #NationalEmergencyLibrary, an electronic lending library.https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/25/national-emergency-library/#universal-access1/ The Archive has long acquired and sc
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Researchers at Carbios and the the University of Toulouse have created a "mutant" variant of leaf-branch compost cutinase that can break the bonds in PET plastics.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/huge-step-forward-mutant-enzyme-could
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Keynes's 1940 pamphlet "How to Pay For the War" reframed the question of large-scale project financing. Rather than focusing on money (which governments can print at will), it focused on
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Tapplock is only secondarily a manufacturer of "Smart Locks." Primarily, what they manufacture is horrible security gaffes. Remember when they made a lock that you didn't need to pick because
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Historian Rebecca Solnit is the best writer on disasters and societal response, the genius who gave us "A Paradise Built in Hell." Her latest Guardian column,could not be more cogent
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