Anxiety, Bedtime and Mating: How Animals May React to the Eclipse
While millions of people are preparing to watch the total solar eclipse that will make its way across North America on Monday, the animals in that affected area — in…
How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain
When it came to wildfires, 2021 was an increasingly common kind of year in Montana: Flames consumed 747,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Long Island. About 2,700 of…
From One Leaning Tower to Another, Tips to Stop the Tilt
Leaning for centuries at a worrisome tilt, the Garisenda Tower in Bologna has endured insults and trauma. Dickens called it “sufficiently unsightly,” if extraordinary, while Goethe said it was “a…
Trump’s Bond Benefactor Earned Billions From Subprime Car Loans
The California billionaire Don Hankey made his fortune by offering high-interest auto loans to buyers with bad credit. This week, he signed up a new client in need of urgent…
Trump’s Trial Lawyer Gambled a Gilded Manhattan Career to Represent Him
Just over a year ago, Todd Blanche was a registered New York Democrat and a partner at Wall Street’s oldest law firm, where the nation’s corporate elite go for legal…
How Adams Went From Burger King to Rikers and Got Baptized Along the Way
It was the day after a New York City police officer had been fatally shot in the line of duty and a man killed after being shoved onto the subway…
Name-Calling and Calling the Police: How N.Y.C. Parent Meetings Got Mean
New York City has never been immune to heated education fights, but in recent months they have taken on a new level of vitriol and aggression, and expanded to a…
A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values | naked capitalism
Yves here. Thomas Neuburger delves into the question of what happens to seemingly ever-levitating US real estate prices when they run into the problem of non-existent or very costly insurance.…
Paris Wants to Show Strength, but Faces Geopolitical Crisis in Africa | naked capitalism
Yves here. Yesterday, we featured a Nick Turse post on how the US is being run out of Niger and among other things, leaving a big pricey military base behind.…
Back-to-Back Israeli Strikes Show Tragic Gaps in Choosing Targets
About 5 p.m. on Monday, Israeli warplanes streaked across the Syrian border, striking an embassy building in Damascus and killing a cadre of senior Iranian military commanders with the kind…