Month: November 2015

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With climate change leading to the warming of the planet, we need to start thinking about heat stress as a major global health problem that deserves serious attention. This story on Central American sugar workers should alarm you and move you to thinking about these issues more carefully. Protecting agricultural workers from heat exposure is […]
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The Wisconsin statute seeking to shut down a majority of the state’s abortion clinics for no legitimate reason is exactly the kind of law you’d like to sic Richard Posner (who memorably eviscerated the asserted constitutionality of bans of “partial birth” abortion) on. Fortunately, Posner was on the panel that heard the appeal, and the […]

Corporate Inversions

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On November 23, 2015

Another giant corporate merger so that American corporations can escape American taxes: The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said on Monday that it had struck a $160 billion deal, including debt, to merge

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Oh White People

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On November 23, 2015
My god…. In a new poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) on Tuesday, a whopping 43 percent of Americans told researchers that discrimination against whites has become as large a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minority groups. And an even bigger share of Americans — 53 percent — told pollsters […]
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