We discussed Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibben earlier this year. His message is that climate catastrophe is not foreordained, even if the current “weather” is odd and suggests that something in seriously amiss. I grew up in the American South, where “hot” is the normal state of being from April through October. One […]
Read more...Rebecca Gordon describes US concentration camps, um, detention centers, as money-driven vehicles for authoritarianism and abuse.
Read more...On the simplistic reasoning Robert Nozick used to justify inequality and a minimal state
Read more...People should be more concerned with the effects of the policies imposed by the Trumps and Musks of the world than the DNA passed on by their parents.
Read more...A Latin America case study on how the pursuit of empire has come to haunt the US.
Read more...Part the First: The Slow Death of Biomedical Research Continues in the United States. We have covered this before, but the entire unfolding situation gets more surreal by the week. STAT News has been a go-to source, as in NIH will spend its full budget this year, agency director promises House appropriators. The first shot […]
Read more...The Iran War is shattering the U.S. illusion of power, breaking truths that are being replaced by AI models and creating an epistemic collapse
Read more...Recently published studies raise basic methodology questions about the tests used to vet firearms ballistic analysts.
Read more...To the frustration of Davos Man, insect agriculture has found it difficult to compete with the traditional meat industry.
Read more...“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protest,” one legal advocate said.
Read more...Oligarch overreach on every front presents challenges—and opportunities.
Read more...Trump’s war on universities, like Iran, is doing great damage to the US, here via success in reducing research funding and causing chaos.
Read more...It is a curious thing that our politicians and economists in the Uniparty believe that economic growth, now and forevermore, will solve all our problems and cure all our ills. One looks around and it’s clear this is not so. Still, this economics truth was stated with utmost, if utterly spurious, clarity by a former […]
Read more...Trump is losing in Iran and on the immigration front as a Federal judge backs Constitutional due process rights over efficiency.
Read more...Part the First: As Giants Still Walk the Earth. Stanley Plotkin began practicing medicine in the 1950s. When he was an intern, outcomes for patients such as this little boy were frightening and devastating: Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the […]
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