The Wilmington coup is the only successful and lasting armed overthrow of a legitimate municipal government in American history on U.S soil...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/04/america-hasnt-reckoned-with-the-coup-that-blasted-the-black-middle-class.html

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Even for those comfortably ensconced in the US, war-making has been a constant backdrop for all but the oldest Americans...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/04/a-lifetime-at-war.html

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A big Covid surge in the Seychelles, a heavly vaccinated country, calls into question relying on vaccines as the route to normalcy...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/seychelles-worlds-most-vaccinated-country-hit-by-covid-surge-including-among-the-vaccinated.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day The Gray-headed Social-Weaver also has a pretty song. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel Im engaging in a macabre form of ...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-6-2021.html

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Apple is now promising to give users more control over who gets their data. But will they make it more seductive to give it away...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/jared-holst-getting-kinky-for-the-sake-of-data.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day From Ethopia. I thought cranes would have more interesting calls than they do, but they all honk in more or less the same way. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-14-2021.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I got wrapped around the axle on Bidens horrid visit to a school room, so there will be more in politics and in health (lots of interesting developments) shortly. lambert Bird Song of the Day I just liked the name Sociable Weaver.”...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-3-2021.html

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Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/homeless-reflect-on-life-in-a-new-york-city-hotel-room-one-year-later.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day From Japan. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel Im engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming ...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-12-2021.html

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By Mojtaba Sadegh, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Amir AghaKouchak, Associate Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, and John Abatzoglou,Associate Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced. Originally ...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/another-dangerous-fire-season-is-looming-in-the-western-u-s-and-the-drought-stricken-region-is-headed-for-a-water-crisis.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Here is the Principe Golden Weaver, in honor of Machiavelli (one more damn book to read). * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-7-2021.html

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CalPERS continued to abuse its long-term care policy holders, via contract-defying rate increases vastly higher than other insurers...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/calpers-long-term-care-program-bleeds-policyholders-dry-via-10x-higher-premiums-gross-mismanagement-bad-faith-dealing.html

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In The Hospital, Brian Alexander chronicles the struggle to provide adequate health care in small-town America during Covid...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/book-review-a-ground-level-look-at-americas-health-care-system.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel Im engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull ...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-11-2021.html

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Here is another weaver bird, also with a pretty song; I liked the name spectacled weaver, since I am be-spectacled myself. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns ...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-4-2021.html

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