Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need
Canada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention,…
Nasdaq Announces End of Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date May 31, 2023
NEW YORK , June 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the end of the settlement date of May 31, 2023 , short interest in 3,333 Nasdaq Global Market SM securities…
Human-Caused Warming to Surpass Paris Agreement Limit by 2037, Analysis Finds | naked capitalism
Yves here. Yet another data point indicating that global warming is proceeding ahead of schedule. Ugh. On the one hand, decision-makers on the East Coast might finally be getting a…
Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding | naked capitalism
Yves here. This is an important post, since it documents yet another way that the foundations of supposedly civilized life are eroding in America, here access to hospitals because money.…
At More Skate Parks, an ‘Aggressive’ Takeover
He will be a sophomore in high school this fall and regularly goes to the skate park on Monday nights, where he shares the pavement with aggressive skaters of various…
Opinion | Trump’s Legal Jeopardy Is the Nation’s Political Jeopardy
Former President Donald Trump finds himself once again facing indictment, this time in federal court, after an investigation into his handling of classified documents after departing the White House. The…
Opinion | John Roberts Throws a Curveball
The Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling on Thursday in Allen v. Milligan is as shocking as it is welcome. The Voting Rights Act has lived to see another day, with…
Two Complicated Princes of the Sport of Kings
Bob Baffert held the shank reverently, as if attending to the cape of a king, as he walked American Pharoah to his barn at Keeneland, a country manor of a…
How a Cracked Phone App Upended a Crime-Ridden Balkan State
When police forces in Western Europe cracked an encrypted phone app popular with narco-traffickers, the messages they deciphered from the Balkan nation of Montenegro provided shocking evidence of a state…
How Delhi copes with toxic air pollution year-round
As wildfires rage in Canada, a view from one of the most polluted cities in the world.