At The Brink

Details: Written by: Jon Queally, Common Dreams

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Government funding cuts to key pandemic programs forced by GOP opposition arrive as progressives in Congress renew their push for Medicare for All.

Details: Written by: Ernest Agee, Purdue University

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Studies do show tornadoes getting more frequent, more intense and more likely to come in swarms. The most intense and longest-lasting tornadoes tend to come from what are known as supercells

Details: Written by: Mike Males, YES! Magazine

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Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.

Details: Written by: University of Copenhagen

carbon pricing 3 21

Implementing carbon prices that reflect the true social costs of CO2 emissions through climate damages remains a key challenge for policy makers around the world.

Details: Written by: Jeffery S. Bredthauer, University of Nebraska Omaha

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The Federal Reserve has begun its most challenging inflation-fighting campaign in four decades. And a lot is at stake for consumers, companies and the U.S. economy.

Details: Written by: Harrison Tasoff, University of California, Santa Barbara

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In coming decades, many regions of the world will enter permanent dry or wet conditions under modern definitions of drought, according to new research.

Details: Written by: Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University

global supply chain ending 3 17

As an expert in global supply chains, I think the war portends the end of something else: global supply chains that Western companies built after the Berlin Wall fell over three decades ago.

Details: Written by: Julia Conley, Common Dreams

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"People should not get the wrong impression that the virus situation is now under control," said one public health expert in Hong Kong.

Details: Written by: Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams

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For the majority of Americans who are so poor they barely have to pay income taxes, Scott's plan is just the latest in a 40-year barrage of assaults and insults coming from the GOP.