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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
The SpaceX IPO makes it clearer than ever that Musk’s greatest skill isn’t developing futuristic products. It’s his mastery of financial shell games and ability to leverage insider influence.

Haiti at the World Cup

Laurent Dubois The Conversation
Haiti at the World Cup is more than an underdog tale – it is the story of global migration. It also illustrates the different kinds of opportunities young athletes have in different countries.

Winter Salmon Run

Lucille Lang Day
Poet Lucille Lang Day confronts the losses suffered by people and animals resulting from the colonization of California by Europeans.

Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan.

Abdul Malik Convergence
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.

How Big Oil Wrecked Your Summer

Aaron Regunberg The New Republic
Weather extremes are not natural. They are climate disasters. They the kind of catastrophes that Big Oil companies predicted their fossil fuel products would cause—at the same time that they were orchestrating fraudulent campaigns of climate denial..