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For decades, many leftists dropped talk of economic planning due to its association with Soviet bureaucracy. But both the climate crisis and the reality of massive state intervention in capitalist economies have made democratic planning inescapable.

What is this “American” fish saying in response to Trump’s latest unfounded claim?

Okay, then refund gamers at market rates when a game has reached the end of its “lifecycle” (i.e. not profitable) | "It Will Have A Chilling Effect On Game Design" - EU Group Responds To 'Stop Killing Games' www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/07...

Energised by Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York democratic primary, I have begun digging into these issues in South Africa. Some readings to follow, but I worry that South Africa's "Left" is non-existent at the moment.

I guess the biggest problem is that like with most things—for example carbon footprints, recycling etc—the onus in the media and other public forums is often pushed to the individual | You’ve been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

The sad thing about the state of American capitalism is that everything can be commodified—even the presidency.

Trump clearly reading the same Despot Textbook—translated into American English obviously—other weak men of history have followed.

In the age of the Thought Leader, we have to hold each other accountable and interrogate our assertions. But we also have to know when we should wade into uncharted territory and whether it is folly to think we could offer anything of substance.

An interesting method to study a very complex question.

A new AI-driven early warning system uses news data to predict food crises up to 12 months in advance–enabling faster, proactive responses. Read today's article to learn more:

What are some examples of win-wins in development? When do businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others?

All of Trump’s “economic” plans sure need a lot of trumping up by his minions to make their farcical claims believable.

Defenders of capitalism argue that cooperation is undermined by individuals’ tendency to take more from society than they contribute. The economist Elinor Ostrom refuted this idea, but without identifying capitalism as the real cause of exploitation.

"A rich and increasingly powerful Poland, with the best and largest land army in Europe outside Ukraine, will need to assume a leadership role for which its history has not prepared it," writes Eliot A. Cohen:

How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andrew Carnegie is turning over in his grave. The golden age of American Capitalism is collapsing at the helm of Trump and they’re celebrating. This is globalisation in action and America is just becoming yet another destination of lower node value chain actors.

Rethinking Economic Development from the Household: Property, Resilience, and Institutional Adaptation in Rural China developingeconomics.org/2025/05/28/r...

When Trump and his cronies said they wanted to bring back the good ol’ days we didn’t think he meant the 1800s.

Trump’s unfounded attack on Cyril Ramaphosa was an insult to all Africans | John Dramani Mahama www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I always expected this day to come because well [capitalism], but am stuck in a quandary about what could possibly replace Arc given how well it works with my workflow | Mac browser Arc being discontinued in favor of new Dia app 9to5mac.com/2025/05/27/m...

A great selection of essays here | What Trump Gets Wrong About South African History foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/25/t...

The same “Gold Standards” that denied actual science and thus contributed to the suffering the deaths of many Americans during COVID?

Qatari donations to U.S. institutions are “a subtle and pernicious form of influence peddling designed to launder Qatar’s reputation—a form of soft corruption that Trump has now characteristically taken to cartoonish excess,” writes @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social:

Cities, Aggregate Welfare, and Growth: Katja Gehr; Michael Pflüger

“I hope that, circa 2030, incoming college students will have trouble understanding the mounting attacks on academic freedom that began about a decade ago,” @conor64.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself.

Doubt the White House will bother putting these headlines in its blog post.

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper." @mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

How does the rollout of export processing zones across municipalities in Nicaragua correlate with rates of schooling? What implications does this have for women's employment and intimate partner violence? Read today's article to learn more:

The Kool-Aid must taste very sweet in the White House—the place where critical thinking has gone to die | President Trump is Right About What’s Happening in South Africa www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

We can all also take a page out of contemporary cases of civil disobedience such as David Graeber.

Amid prolonged and cascading political crises, establishing a political home for yourself—that is, finding your people—is a necessary ingredient for nurturing non-cooöperation.

Republicans have boarded the MAMU (Make American More Unequal) train. Ain’t no stopping it now. The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Death of people, death, death, death, horrible death, death” The official mantra of the Psychopaths of America Society

A decade ago, San Francisco seemed to exist in a helium balloon, floating ever upward. Now it is widely regarded as an emblem of American collapse. What happened?

What is with Trump and oversized stationery? Printing out these “articles” on A3 sheets of paper…just send an email.

Very, very poor word choice by the Associated Press in an article about South Africa.

Very, very poor word choice by the Associated Press in an article about South Africa.

If Trump spent less time golfing and more time Googling he may actually have a pretty decent chance of gaining some insight into the state of South Africa.

So do the steroid-era players also get a pass once they die?

“In my view, the only salient fact that has changed since that decision is that Mr. Rose has recently passed away.” - Rob Manfred. I mean the responses to this logic write themselves.

“Trump has publicly called for Pete Rose to be in the Hall of Fame for years,” writes Jemele Hill. To believe that pressure from Trump had nothing to do with the MLB’s move to lift Rose’s lifetime ban would require ignoring some awfully big coincidences:

White South African ‘refugees’? The jokes write themselves www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

Wait. Musk and his companies have core values that aren’t aligned with white supremacy? Who knew based on his on antics | Elon Musk's AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa's racial politics was 'unauthorized' apnews.com/article/grok...

We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Eager to listen to this.

In a political economy where they had access to all of the same opportunities as anyone else living in the country according to the law (despite their own personal perceptions), the Afrikaner “refugees” don’t have a leg to stand on when the previous system was so in favour.