Old-Age Poverty

One has to hold begrudging admiration for the determination of the enemies of Social Security among Republicans and conservatives: Not only are they refusing to let a global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic divert them from the long-term campaign to undermine the program, they’re using the crisis to justify…

I'm trying to figure out why some people still aren't taking curcumin. The only reasons I can come up with are that maybe their testosterone levels and sperm quality are irreproachable and they don't need any help modulating their estrogen receptors, thank you. It could also be that that their…

Emma Watson conducted an interview/conversation with Professor Valerie Hudson, author of Sex and World Peace, a data-driven examination of what happens when governments are male-dominated and toxic, and when women are driven out of any political power. I came into this transcript of their conversation simply hoping to grab a…

Real Time Reflections from Sheltered Radicals in the Time of the Most Dangerous Criminal in Human History May 3 + Street: Comrades, this article never ends but it’s worth a read: “34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America.” It is a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s total…

The European Commission has recommended keeping the EU's external borders closed to non-EU citizens in an effort to prevent a second wave of the novel coronavirus. Follow DW for the latest. - The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen to over 272,000, while more than 3.8 million people are known to have…

My street is a quiet one, tucked away in the nether regions of Islington, a few minutes from Regent’s Canal. Its stillness normally comes at a price since at any given time there are repairs underway—a window frame, a roof, a facade—and the moment one job is done another springs…

L-R: Alhaji Rabiu Gwarzo, Board Member, FMN, Alhaji Sani Umar, Director, Northern Nigerian Flour Mills,  Abdulfatai Isa, Area Sales Manager, FMN, Prof. Abubakar, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Fatai sobande, Production Manager, FMN, His Excellency Dr Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, Governor of Kano State at the presentation of 5,000 COVID-19 test kits…

Yves here. I wish I had written this must-read post. Richard Murphy lays out the case for whose interests need to be sacrificed for the economy to have any hope of surviving under the conditions being imposed on businesses to keep workers and customers safe. Unfortunately, his well-reasoned recommendation, that…

After WWI, the distinguished British economist Edwin Cannan was asked, somewhat reproachfully, what he did during the terrible war years. He replied: “I protested.” The present article is a similar protest against the current lockdown policies put into place in most countries of the Western world to confront the current coronavirus pandemic. Here…

If Japan needed another indication of just how serious the COVID-19 epidemic is and may yet become, it got a wakeup call when its most beloved funnyman, Ken Shimura, died at age 70 at the end of March. Shimura, who had first battled pneumonia in 2016, was hospitalized nine days…