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Why do we have a Toronto Police board with city councillors on it if disbanding the mobile crisis intervention team is kept secret?
Typical Toronto Police trying to hide things
https://www.the…

"The Enshittifinancial Crisis", Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

Trump has begun to address affordability a bit more
—rhetorically, that is.
He’s never fully acknowledged that the affordability problem has continued into his administration,
nor how his own policies
—from tariffs raising prices on myriad goods to the chaotic interruptions in crucial benefits like food stamps
—have contributed to Americans’ economic sufferings.
But he has been making more claims about what he’s supposedly doing to bring down the cost of livi…

Trump Is Bored to Death by the Affordability Crisis
He’s finally started to acknowledge the struggles of ordinary Americans, but he’s incapable of staying focused on them.

"‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk" https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=share_btn_url

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

"Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

Just learned a new phrase: constitutional omni-crisis.
#USpol

Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/02/goldman-sachs-fieldguid…

Goldman Sachs leads $75 million funding round for Fieldguide, an AI-native accounting and audit platform
Valued at $700 million, Fieldguide is combating the ‘existential’ talent crisis for the CPA industry.

Can AI Help Ukraine’s Mental Health Crisis? New Evidence on Digital Support During War: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/can-ai-help-ukraines-mental.html

In the past year, a handful of sheriff’s departments in California have started 👉refusing to respond to 911 calls that involve a mental health crisis, but where no crime has been reported.
In February, the #Sacramento sheriff, Jim Cooper, announced that his deputies would only respond to mental health crises if a crime had been committed or was in process,
or if someone other than the person…

'Crisis': The fallout from Trump's surprise plan to close Kennedy Center (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/02/02/trump-kennedy-center-closure-nso/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p152#a260202p152

Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.

S.F. supervisors say late-night store ban is working. Not so fast, say criminologists. 
Researchers urge caution on policy implications, as San Francisco supervisors use study's results to push for a broader late-night ban.

Sources: Vanity Fair's February issue, already in print, lists Olivia Nuzzi as West Coast editor; staffers are yet to get an update on VF's Nuzzi investigation (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-book-vanity-fair-conde-nast-…

Vanity Fair’s West Coast Woes
The Olivia Nuzzi scandal has become a slow-burn crisis inside Vanity Fair, engulfing Condé Nast leadership and raising broader questions about the magazine’s future.

Energy crisis coal switch increased emissions, illnesses and deaths across 6 countries #environment

Energy crisis coal switch increased emissions, illnesses and deaths across 6 countries
In addition to serious economic damage, the energy crisis of 2021/22 also had dramatic consequences for the environment and people's health. This is the conclusion reached by two researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in a new study. Although the temporary switch from gas to coal for producing electricity was cheaper and contributed to securing the energy supply, in the six European countries featured in the study, it caused additional costs of around one billi…

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIA’S BANKING CRISIS: KREMLIN CONFIRMS Vlog 1308: War in #Ukraine
pro-#kremlin

Raiders HC Pete Carroll’s QB Crisis: Greg Olson Talks, Richie Incognito Snaps https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/29/raiders-hc-pete-carrolls-qb-crisis-greg-olson-talks-richie-incognito-snaps/

Not sure about solving…
How AI Labs Are “Solving” the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive Read More https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power

How AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive
Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO

The climate crisis wasn't caused by ordinary people—so why are they footing the bill?
Two activists in France are pushing to change that. Their "Tax Their Billions" campaign is shifting public opinion toward making billionaires pay their fair share for climate solutions.
It's about accountability and justice in the transition we desperately need.

Ordinary people can’t keep paying for a crisis they didn’t create
Meet Chloé Sublet and Léa Renault, two activists in France fighting to make billionaires pay their fair share so the cost of the climate crisis doesn’t fall on everyone else

Energy in the new Dutch coalition agreement.
1. Highest priority for electricity grid congestion. Better use of capacity by incentives in grid fees, flex contracts, and energy hubs. A crisis-law grid congestion to accelerate permitting procedures for grid expansion.

What a paragraph. From
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown.
“When we compare the total terrestrial water storage data with climate datasets, the trends broadly correlate,” said Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction at UCL.

Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media-stop-acting-like-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p83#a260203p83

So why was COP30 such a failure? Didn't "we" understand what is happening?
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

So why was COP30 such a failure? Didn't "we" understand what is happening?
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

"Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it... I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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from my link log —
America's monopoly crisis hits the military.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-monopoly-crisis-hits-the-military/
saved 2019-06-30

America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military
Wall Street's short-term incentives have decimated our defense industrial base and undermined our national security.

When school counselors must decide which children get to eat,
it’s time to acknowledge we’re in a national affordability crisis.
The problem is the economy itself
— not just its current condition, but the underlying unfairness of how it is organized.
A friend's elderly parents live near an elementary school not far from the nation’s capital.
For several years, they had been quietly raising money to provide groceries and basic supplies for families whose child…

The Affordability Crisis Is Real. Only Worker Organizing Can Offer Solutions.
A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.

‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of arsenic in Argentina’s water https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/27/argentina-hidden-arsenic-crisis-poor-contaminat…

🌪️ The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
https://theconversation.com/the-housing-crisis-is-forcing-americans-to-choose-between-affordability-and-safety-266136
<…

The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety
Priced out of ‘safe,’ more and more Americans are moving to flood plains and fire zones.

Growing Up in Crisis: Caring for Youth in Violent Times https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/24/growing-up-in-crisis-caring-for-youth-in-violent-times

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here's the ugly backstory. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-just-loves-the-revamped-cbs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p30#a251104p30

Both Amazon & Microsoft cooperatively push for 5 policy changes to address housing crisis in WA state.
▶️ WA must make it easier to build our way out of housing crisis | The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-mu…

In November, the Whitlam Institute convened a major national symposium marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 Dismissal. The event brought together leading historians, legal scholars, policymakers and commentators to reflect on the Dismissal’s enduring impact on Australian democracy.
The full keynote addresses and panel discussions are now available to watch online, providing a lasting public resource on one of the most significant moments in Australia’s political history.
Watc…

The Whitlam Dismissal and the Crisis of November 1975: A 50th Anniversary Symposium
On 11 November 1975, the dismissal of the Whitlam Government plunged the nation into a political crisis. Fifty years on, the events of November 1975 remain t...

"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

In memoriam (1938–2025)
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/stewart-cheifet/

Stewart Cheifet
The same way kids are addicted to TikTok nowadays, I was addicted to TV as a kid. In the place and time of my teenage years, that is Argentina during the 1980s, it was the times of hyperinflation and eternal crisis (which begs the question: has anything changed in forty years?) Such a tense situation also meant that there was not much content on the telly about a subject that I was definitely interested in since a young age: computers. I mean, you could barely afford food, so, understandably en…

Thailand’s endangered ‘sea cows’ are washing ashore – pointing to a crisis in our seas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/thailand-dugong-sea-cow-population-sea-biodiversity-crisis

Mr. Maduro has tried to protect himself from a potential precision strike or a special-forces raid
by frequently changing sleeping locations and cellphones
Those precautions have accelerated since September, when the United States started amassing warships and striking boats the Trump administration claims were smuggling drugs from Venezuela.

Maduro Faces His Ultimate Fight as Trump Threatens Military Action in Venezuela
President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign.

#ClimateChange in the UK: ‘Homes may have to be abandoned’.
Not because of future developments, but because of the impact climate change is already heaving https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Poison Girls:
🎵 Crisis
#PoisonGirls
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DMdCF5Y3cWOc4MUIZcccj

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115808306629909320
New 19,000 word piece by Ed Zitron about how "modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory m…

An interview with Minnesota Star Tribune editor Kathleen Hennessey about becoming the central hub of local information amid a surge of immigration operations (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/24/2026

“We’re not trying to recreate social media”: How Minnesota’s Star Tribune navigates a local crisis
The publication tries to offer a sober alternative to a social media swarm as a deadly shooting deepens the crisis in Minneapolis.

'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/15/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-cris…

"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
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There is no immigration crisis in the United States. Immigrants are an asset. We have instead a crisis of lies spread by pro-fascist media and politicians who are bent on destroying democracy in their search for more power. ICE is just a tool in that giant fraud.

Former NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith: Why sports' leaders must address growing gambling crisis https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6900645/2025/12/19/sports-gambling-betting-problem-crisis-demaurice-smith/

RAM price crisis LIVE — latest updates on global memory shortage, expert advice and more | Tom's Guide #capitalism

RAM price crisis LIVE — latest updates on global memory shortage, expert advice and more
Here's all you need to know about RAMageddon

Once upon a time ther was a rabbit named hare who had an identity crisis. he asked his mother "am I rabbit or hare?" and his mother answered "hare"

As he approaches his final summit as the UN chief,
António Guterres reflects on
humanity’s progress in attempting to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels,
why Indigenous voices must be listened to
and how he remains positive in the face of the climate crisis.
https://…

‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 11/04/2025 · 16m

"The Venezuelan people, already suffering under economic collapse and political repression, now face the prospect of becoming collateral damage in someone else’s power consolidation project."
Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera

Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab
Trump has manufactured the Venezuela crisis, not to grab more oil but to expand his executive power.

Where martial law meets the energy crisis | Ukraine This Week: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/where-martial-law-meets-the.html

🫥 Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.html

Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
The discovery of at least 500 bags containing human remains within a 10-mile radius of Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium tarnishes expectations for the FIFA tournament

According to federal and tribal data, about 5,700 Native American girls are reported missing every year.
The disappearances of Native American women — many of whom are presumed murdered, raped or trafficked — receive only a modicum of media attention,
barely registering in public consciousness.
Yet the crisis is so widespread that it has its own acronym — MMIP, “Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons.”

The Survivors We Still Refuse to See
Epstein victims deserve spotlight. So do 5,700 Native women and girls reported missing each year

“The case for upzoning is relatively solid but deeply underwhelming as a standalone position. The upshot is that everyone is at least partly right: Upzoning can address the shortfall in supply. But it won’t come close to solving the housing crisis alone. Re-enter: public housing.”
https://

The Solution to the Affordable Housing Problem That No One Wants to Discuss
There are new ideas for fixing this. And one very old one.

"‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis"
#Pesticides #Climate #ClimateChange

How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power

How AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive
Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO

2/2/26☀️ AM: ... Congress is in the midst of a crisis -- again. (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/2226-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p21#a260202p21

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them "irresponsible" for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/28/coin…

US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite #Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims:
“It’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions. Most of the elite discourse is very bad at estimating or understanding levels of public concern, and this is a good example of this.”
#ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Kyiv's mismanaged winter: Energy crisis, icy streets expose city leadership failures: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/kyivs-mismanaged-winter-energy-crisis.html

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority bans some Coinbase ads, finding them "irresponsible" for suggesting crypto as a solution to the cost of living crisis (Tom Knowles/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/28/coin…

The largest #protests in #Iran for three years entered a fifth day on Thursday
amid reports of deadly clashes between protesters and security forces,
with state-affiliated media confirming at least two people had been #killed.…

‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/argentina-patagonia-wildfires-j…

"‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

😩 Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/05/fixing-britains-worklessness-crisis-will-cost-employers-6bn-a-year-report-says<…

Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says
The Keep Britain Working review, created to tackle the rising tide of ill health pushing millions out of work, reported its findings ahead of this month’s budget

Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
#emissions

US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims (Oliver Milman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p37#a251226p37

The Yamuna River,
a vital waterway for millions and a crucial source of drinking water for approximately 40% of Delhi’s population,
is grappling with a severe pollution crisis.
The river’s condition has deteriorated to the point where considerable portions are frequently covered in toxic substances,
raising serious public health concerns and threatening the region’s water security.

Yamuna River: From Sacred Lifeline to Toxic Disaster Threatening Delhi's Water Supply – Archyde
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❗️Fewer petrodollars – weaker war: crisis escalates in Russia! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/fewer-petrodollars-weaker-war-crisis.html

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions https://phys.org/news/2026-01-world-era-global-bankruptcy-scientists.html
UN report declares global state of 'water bankruptcy…

World enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions
Amid chronic groundwater depletion, water overallocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, all compounded by global heating, a UN report today declared the dawn of an era of global water bankruptcy, inviting world leaders to facilitate "honest, science-based adaptation to a new reality."

“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.

"Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran"
#Iran #AirPollution
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-dr…

Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran

In a time of crisis, Trump falls back on rants rather than unity (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/30/trump-response-national-guard-attack/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p17#a251130p17

Iran's president says moving the capital Tehran is now a necessity as the water crisis deepens. That'll be moving 16 million people (metro area) then, almost equal to the entire population of the Netherlands.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.

Kyiv energy crisis 'extremely serious,' as SBU presents evidence of Russian 'crimes against humanity': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/kyiv-energy-crisis-extremely-serious.html

The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis.
No one has a solution.
Once again, the Colorado River is heading toward a crisis. This time, the way out appears murkier than ever.

For months, the seven states of the Colorado River basin have failed to reach an agreement on new rules to share the river’s dwindling supply of water.
The current rules that divvy up water among 40 million people in the West, including Los Angeles, Phoenix and farming regions that provide most o…

The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis. No one has a solution.
The Colorado River faces a crisis as seven states struggle to agree on water-sharing rules.

"The secret to tackling the climate crisis could be right under our feet. Here’s why"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How soil could be the secret weapon to meet climate targets
Despite being one of the largest natural carbon sinks, most nations exclude soil from their climate plans.

Another year in which we've been making the climate crisis worse faster. And the role of aviation continues to grow nastier: probably good for 1/6 of the increase this year, caused by a small minority of the global population.
https://news.m…

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

Energy CRISIS on a NATIONAL scale! ⚡️ Zelenskyy made a STATEMENT #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/energy-crisis-on-a-national.html

'There is no Christmas for separated families': Pastors tend to immigrant families in crisis (Aleja Hertzler-McCain/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/23/there-is-no-christmas-for-separated-families-pastors-tend-to-immigrant-families-in-crisis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p23#a251224p23

America's Housing Crisis, in One Chart (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/housing-crisis-america.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p15#a251123p15

❗️Large-scale energy crisis after shelling #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/largescale-energy-crisis-after-shelling.html

Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of
‘global water bankruptcy’
with many human water systems past the point at which they can be restored to former levels.
To find out what this could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s diplomatic editor,
Patrick Wintour, who has been reporting on Iran’s severe water crisis.
And Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction in the department of risk and dis…

Has the world entered an era of ‘water bankruptcy’?
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 01/27/2026 · 18m

Over the past four years, hedge funds have doubled their footprint in the U.S. debt market,
making the Cayman Islands
— where many hedge funds are officially based
— the place where the most U.S. debt outside the United States is held, according to the Fed.
Typically, people flock to Treasuries for safety in times of crisis.
Yet, driven in large part by hedge fund activity, the Treasury market went through unusual turbulence during recent shocks -- including th…

Opinion | America’s Debt Problem Is Worse Than You’ve Heard
The size of the national debt matters. But so does who America’s lenders are — and that is changing.

We initially set out to write a
David-vs.-Goliath narrative
about the town’s response to the
COVID crisis.
But there came a turning point
at which we realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany than COVID-19.
They were about #race and #power.
In the week…

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.

Firearms have been the leading cause of death for Gen Z since 2017,
when the youngest zoomers were kindergarten age and the oldest could not yet legally drink alcohol.
Since 2013, when the last of Gen Z turned 1, more than 64,000 zoomers have been killed by firearms
https://www.the…

Gun Violence Is Gen Z’s Leading Cause of Death
CDC data shows that Gen Z bears a disproportionate share of our national gun violence crisis.

"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Book — Non-fiction. By David Wallace-Wells. 2019. 320 pages. This book raises the alarm over the Earth's climate crisis and demands radical action to save human civilization as we know it.

Democrats focused on the improving metrics
and lost voters who were drowning in the day to day reality.
Trump is doing something even worse.
He is telling people their suffering does not exist at all.
That is not optimism.
That is contempt.
And contempt has a way of boomeranging in politics.

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

The recent election results proved something important.
Voters responded to candidates who spoke directly to economic pain.
When Democrats leaned into economic populism, they won.
They won by acknowledging reality, not sugarcoating it.
They won because they talked like people who know what a grocery bill feels like in 2025.
The mandate was clear:
tell the truth about the economy and fight for people who are getting squeezed.
And now comes Trump,…

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.