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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Observercast

Cracks In The Foundation

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COVID? COVID-19 has all but disappeared from California. At this writing, our positivity rate – the percentage of tests that are coming back positive – is 1.2%. California has gone from being one of the worst places in the nation for COVID-19 to being the best. The joke is that everyone who could get COVID […]

Real Political Scandals Are Rarely About Sex

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As the Trump presidency fades into the past, we are reminded of the sex scandal at its dawn. The Federal Election Commission has just dropped its probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Charges that Trump broke campaign finance laws in 2016 by not reporting the $130,000 payment […]

Suspend Those Vaccine Patents Now

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Images of the uncontrolled pandemic in India or Brazil may seem too distant to worry us in America, separated as we are by thousands of miles and decades of development. But any such complacency is badly misplaced. Raging contagion poses an existential threat to us, whether abroad or at home, and can only be stanched […]

Biden’s Economic Agenda May Be More Truman Than FDR

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Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar plans to revive the economy, fix America’s infrastructure and ease poverty have spawned comparisons between him and Franklin D. Roosevelt. At the 100-day mark of the Biden presidency, David Gergen, who has advised presidents of both parties, wrote, “Biden is off to an excellent start – arguably, one of the best since […]

Doing Good Business In The Food Economy

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A cadre of business school economists, high-tech speculators and corporate planners have been hyping and investing billions in a food-economy model that renders many millions – family farmers, local restauranteurs, independent food processors, small grocers and food workers – passe. No need for such costly and cumbersome “units,” argue these schemers for a revolution enabled […]