Varoufakis reviews the book, Good Economics for Hard Times, whose authors just received the Nobel Prize for studying how various measures affect poverty.

In regard to AOC's proposed 70% tax bracket, we do mot have to permit companies to pass money to executives untaxed through trust funds.

How global heating makes wildfires bigger and more dangerous.

DWIM in a software tool can be a pain in the neck. DWIM in a car can kill you or give you a terrible scare.

Vanuatu has forced a newspaper editor to leave the country by cancelling his work permit.

Papua New Guinea is imprisoning boat people on Australia's behalf in such horrible conditions that one of them has decided to face prison in Iran instead.

He reports being kept incommunicado, on starvation rations, in horrible heat, and not allowed anything to read or to write on. The guards tantalized him with use of a shower so hot he could not actually wash.