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Tweet GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino puts the recent UAW victory in Tennessee into perspective. A slice: The reason the election is such a big deal is that this same facility in Tennessee voted against UAW representation in 2014 and 2019. Tennessee is a right-to-work state, and without the aid of government coercion to make […]

The Magic of Bird Brains The New Yorker Climate Polar vortex is ‘spinning backwards’ above Arctic after major reversal event Space.com Greenland’s glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated LiveScience Extractivism in the Anthropocene Monthly Review Burn boss trial moving from Grant County, Oregon to federal court Wildfire Today Movement of crops, animals played […]

Tweet George Will applauds the Institute for Justice’s challenge, now at the United States Supreme Court, to an appalling bit of local-government tyranny. Two slices: Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments as to whether Sylvia Gonzalez, represented by the indefatigable and infallible Institute for Justice, can sue the city officials who, she […]

Tweet Ryan Bourne writes insightfully about mistaken notions about inflation. Two slices: Shrinkflation did happen across a range of food products, particularly in 2022. But this itself is just a manifestation *of* inflation, which ultimately had macroeconomic roots (too much money chasing too few goods). The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which calculates the Consumer Price Index, already […]

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