Michael J. Sullivan·Oct 29WWNS #8: The War Budget Nobody Can CutIn five years, five companies took in $771 billion in Pentagon contracts, more than twice what the U.S. spent on diplomacy and aid…
Michael J. Sullivan·Oct 20WWNS #7: No Bailout Will Save the American Farmer — But Some Farmers Are Already Saving ThemselvesThe U.S. has lost 23,000 farms a year since 2017. Ninety-three years of federal bailouts haven’t slowed it down — because bailouts were…
Michael J. Sullivan·Oct 16WWNS #6: Why Saving Wildlife One Threat at a Time Isn’t WorkingEarlier this month WWF reported, again, that monitored wildlife populations have fallen 73% on average since 1970. Another study built on…
Michael J. Sullivan·Oct 13WWNS #5: Tuning Out the News, Turning Toward Each OtherInterest in news has fallen sharply in five years, and trust has reached a new low. Have people stopped wanting to understand what’s…
Michael J. Sullivan·Oct 8WWNS #4: What the Oil-Shock Numbers Leave OutA recent Dallas Fed working paper finds that the United States is less exposed to an oil supply shock than it was in 1980. That is useful…
Michael J. Sullivan·Sep 17WWNS Foundations 2: The Six Fronts of InterventionUpdated October 2026. This issue now includes a guide to where each of the nine archetypes fits across all six fronts, with one graphic per…
Michael J. Sullivan·Mar 12, 2025RDF ETL: generating blanknodes with R2RML triples-mapsI hadn’t seen much on this subject in my web searches so I thought I’d document how to generate blanknodes (i.e. nested, unnamed data…
