- This 2017 piece from Bloomberg is worth revisiting: The Mostly Forgotten Tax Increases of 1982-1993. It is an opinion piece written by someone sympathetic to Reagan’s big tax cut, but who also looks at the data and sees that a major reason for the Clinton era budget surplus, and by extension, the best way to lower deficits, is via tax increases.
- This book review is worth a read for anyone interested in the fascism deabte as it pertains to contemporary politics. Via S-USIH: “The Wolves Came”: Richard Steigmann-Gall on Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins’s *Did it Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America*.
- Along those lines I recommend this essay by Andy Craig at The UnPopulist: Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher.
- Via YNet: Qatar lobby reaches deep into US conservative media, documents show.
- Via Fortune: DOGE said 40% of the Social Security Agency’s calls were ‘fraudulent.’ Data suggests it was actually less than 1%. Matt Bernius mentioned this in a comment thread recently, but it deserves reinforcement.
- Via WBUR: Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research.
“It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war,” said Dr. Michael Barnett, an associate professor of health policy at the school of public health. “Nukes have been launched and there’s just increasingly complete devastation”
The loss of funding is a blow to researchers who’ve spent decades working to improve human health, to lab staff who hoped findings would launch their careers, and to patients around the world who rely on this work.
But, you know, who cares about cancer research when you can stick it to Harvard? Amiright?
