Donald Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Continues Apace
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is from the Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is expected to suspend an Affordable Care Act program that plays a key role in the health law’s insurance markets, a move that could deal a financial blow to many insurers that expect payments. The…
Health Care Update Plus Bonus Rant
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. First things first: everything is fine. Everything I said last week is still operative. My cancer load is down substantially and I generally feel pretty good. And yet. Thanks to the evil dex (postponed to Friday this week thanks to the 4th of July holiday)…
There Are a Few Things Environmentalists Actually Do Agree On
Peter Byrne/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sometimes the most vicious fights occur over the smallest differences. Brutal battles have pitted Catholics that kneel in prayer against Protestant sects that stood before the…
Rents Are Too Damn High and the World Is Too Damn Hot. Both Are About to Make Gentrification Worse.
A young woman walks through the parking lot of a Conroe, Texas, house whose owners have installed tents. A thin sheet of snow blanketed the Houston area on December 8, 2017. Alicia L. Pérez/EFE/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part…
Federal Judge Dismisses Trivial Lawsuit
US District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, a couple of Democratic donors and a former mid-level staffer for the DNC filed a longshot suit against Roger Stone and the Trump campaign. They alleged that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to hack…
Human Power Computers Are Not Too Far Over the Horizon
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brad DeLong posts a Wikipedia page today showing the cost of computing power over time. I adjusted it to show the cost of about 30 petaflops of computing power, which is roughly the consensus estimate of the power of the human brain. Here it is:…