An extremely cheap, safe and widely available off-patent medicine appears to be saving the lives of covid-19 patients across Latin America and beyond. Yet hardly anybody’s talking about it. … Read More It’s Time To Talk About Ivermectin
The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again… Read More Aaugh! A Brief List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus
In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it… Read More Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment
The advent of a Draghi government speaks volumes about the nature of Italian (post-)democracy, and the perverse effects that the euro has had on the country’s economic, social and political fabric… Read More Mario Draghi Is the Problem, Not the Solution
Five years ago, official abuses of secrecy were the scandal. Today, the scandal is you… Read More The War on Privacy
Jeff Bezos’s newspaper is weaponizing fact checking to slander Bernie Sanders and defend GOP tax cuts that enrich billionaires and Amazon. Democracy dies in darkness.… Read More Lies, Damn Lies, And Fact Checking
With Trump gone, what will the media feed their clickbait hunger with? War? Russia, China, Syria, Iran?… Read More The Mephistopheles Media
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.… Read More How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed A Rising Competitor in Just Three Days
If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences… Read More We Need a New Media System
Bloomberg News attempts to capture the “speculative frenzy” of today’s markets; here’s the key stuff it missed.… Read More Welcome to a Rerun of the Roaring ’20s
“Committing” money and actually turning the funds over are two very different things.… Read More Research Arm of Congress Confirms that Mnuchin Never Released Bulk of CARES Act Money Earmarked for Fed’s Emergency Loans
At least some of the lockdown logic is rooted in a fundamentally flawed and relatively recent conception of human nature… Read More Lockdowns Destroy What Makes Us Human
