2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am finishing up another post on the horrid CDC HICPAC anti-mask teleconference coming up on August 22, so I am afraid you…
Analyzing Apparently Irrational Behavior in Western Elites | naked capitalism
Yves here. This new piece from reader and sometime blogger albrt has a go at the question that has been bedeviling more and more commentators: why are the putative people…
Trump indictments: A very simple guide to his four big legal cases
Published 9 minutes ago close panel Related Topics Image source, Getty Images By Tom Geoghegan BBC News Former President Donald Trump is facing dozens of criminal charges and will go…
Former NFL running back Collins dies aged 28
Former Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks running back Alex Collins has died aged 28. Collins was riding a motorcycle when he collided with an SUV in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, and…
Opinion | How (Many) Economists Missed the Big Disinflation
In economics, as in life, it’s really important to learn from your mistakes. The learning process begins when you say the magic words “I was wrong,” which sets you free…
Opinion | At a College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In
As of July, New College had 328 incoming students, a record for the school. Of the group, 115 are athletes, and 70 were recruited to play baseball, even though, as…
Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youths in a Landmark Climate Case
A group of young people in Montana won a landmark lawsuit on Monday when a judge ruled that the state’s failure to consider climate change when approving fossil fuel projects…
Justin H. Min, Travel Writer? The Path Not Taken for a Rising Star
Five years after Justin H. Min began pursuing acting by Googling “how to pursue acting,” he thought he was getting the hang of it. He had made a viral commercial,…
‘Blind Side’ Player Says He Was Conned With Adoption Promise
The former N.F.L. player Michael Oher, whose journey out of poverty and into football stardom was dramatized in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” asked a Tennessee court on Monday…
A World Away From the World Cup, Soccer With a Different Goal
They do not have marked soccer fields in Tennant Creek, a town in Australia’s Northern Territory, halfway across the continent from Sydney. So one morning last week, before nearly 100…