Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job ( www.vox.com )
Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job ( www.vox.com )
Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job ( www.vox.com )
Reminder that open enrollment is coming up, and that only a union can prevent insurance from being changed on a whim.
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? ( www.vox.com )
We are rapidly approaching the dystopian time Star Trek envisioned but it’s worse - Lemmit ( www.vox.com )
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do ( www.vox.com )
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression ( www.vox.com )
America’s Trumpiest court handed down a shockingly dangerous decision. The Supreme Court is likely, but not certain, to fix it....
"Climate-friendly" beef could land in a meat aisle near you. Don’t fall for it. | Tyson Foods and the federal government refuse to show their math for a new sustainability label. ( www.vox.com )
How states humiliate single parents who need government assistance ( www.vox.com )
To receive government assistance in the US is to submit yourself to a whole host of requirements, some reasonable, some harsh. Each state, and each program within it, has their own requirements, which might be a test of income, of assets, or even of behavior. Some are reasonable — a millionaire probably doesn’t need food...
The Supreme Court’s new term will be dominated by dangerous and incoherent lawsuits ( www.vox.com )
No matter how bad the Supreme Court gets, it can always get worse....
Capitalism is turning us into addicts | How Big Business shapes our habits and desires. ( www.vox.com )
Three reasons Biden is struggling with Black and Latino voters ( www.vox.com )
A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?
The indictment of Hunter Biden isn’t really about gun charges ( www.vox.com )
Prosecutors are moving aggressively because the plea deal fell apart. But why did it fall apart?
There’s been a shift in how we think about climate change: A climate psychologist explains how we’ve moved beyond hope, anger, and complacency toward something more promising. ( www.vox.com )
My takeaways are that more news exposure is good (see the availability heuristic and mere-exposure effect) for putting climate change concern on the agenda, while information campaigns aren't very useful unless they're paired with avenues for action. Policy changes (incentives and disincentives, regulations, price changes,...
The "abolish the police" movement, explained by 7 scholars and activists ( www.vox.com )
The constitutional case that Donald Trump is already banned from being president ( www.vox.com )
DeSantis is still standing by Florida’s revisionist Black history ( www.vox.com )
America’s worst gerrymander may soon finally die ( www.vox.com )
The state of Wisconsin does not choose its state legislature in free and fair elections, and it has not done so for a very long time. A new lawsuit, filed just one day after Democrats effectively gained a majority on the state Supreme Court, seeks to change that....
Why school segregation is getting worse ( www.vox.com )
Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status....
Taiwan’s earthquake preparedness saved a lot of lives — and prevented a catastrophe for the global tech economy ( www.vox.com )
From Taiwan to South Korea to Silicon Valley, some of the most important nodes in the global tech economy are in disaster-prone places.
Joe Biden has a housing affordability problem ( www.vox.com )
There’s a shadow fleet sneaking Russian oil around the world. It’s an ecological disaster waiting to happen. ( www.vox.com )
The world’s next big maritime catastrophe could involve sanctions-dodging rustbuckets....
China’s grip on Hong Kong just became a little tighter ( www.vox.com )
21 years ago, half a million Hong Kongers took to the streets to stop Article 23. This month, Beijing finally won....
Indonesia may have just elected a strongman ( www.vox.com )
A relic from Indonesia’s dictatorship is the new president....
