Berlin Wall

Forty-one years ago this summer I was a young investigator working in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC for the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, a big federal investigation chaired by Dartmouth Professor John Kemeny, who is best known as the father of the BASIC programming language.…

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Helena Hauff has been announced as the next person to take on a Kern mix for Tresor Records. The mix series has previously featured Objekt and DJ Stingray. ‘Kern Vol. 5’ will be released on June 19. Lockdown-permitting, the release will be celebrated at Tresor on July 24, featuring sets…

The Quarantine is in full effect now! People are crawling up their walls! To keep you somewhat sane, Punknews' Mike Musilli has rounded up a selection of choice punk and hardcore podcasts to help you bide the time. What else have you got to do? Check out his picks below.…

Video by Agence France-Presse BERLIN —The coronavirus pandemic, with its simultaneous health and economic crises, is deepening fault lines within Europe in a way some leaders fear could prove to be a final reckoning.The cohesion of the European Union had been battered by Brexit, bruised by the political fallout from…

The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, but a piece of that memory has disappeared overnight to make way for new apartments. Historians…

In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, the response among European Union member states showed national interests trump more altruistic European ideals. Border restrictions were reimposed haphazardly, and Germany and France threw up export bans on medical equipment, such as masks and ventilators, even as Italy clamored for assistance.Quick…

STAMFORD, CT - MARCH 20: Health workers change personal protective equipment at a coronavirus ... (COVID-19) drive thru testing location operated by Murphy Medical Associates at Cummings Park on March 20, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. “We are still at the beginning of this public health emergency and it is my…

Part 2: Should Experts Agree? In my last EconLog essay, I examined the impossible tradeoff between expert fields. Each area of expertise is a separate silo, I argued, and we don’t have any good way to strike a balance among these competing perspectives. That’s why the politics of pandemic policy…

by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Hey, Martin. Thanks for your models and the key insights. My wife, who is an ER nurse, came across this article recently. She read about 90% out loud to me as she believes, based upon her medical knowledge and overall disgust with the hysteria around COVID-19, that this post…