This woman’s insight at left is interesting, but fear isn’t the primary reason I’d stay out of the United States if I were a European or Canadian. Rather, it’s boycotting evil. I don’t use Amazon, I don’t shop at Home …
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Bringing Children into a World that Features Environmental Collapse
I just met a married couple in their early 30s, no kids. The guy wanted to know what I do in life, and I explained that I’m a writer in environmental sustainability. This caused him to chuckle and ask, “Holy …
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Trust in the United States
Trumpism could be defined as the rejection of truth and science, and the willingness to tell bald-face lies in order to make Donald Trump appear to be an honest and effective servant of the American people. Until what time, if …
Trump Desperate to Deny Americans Access to Unflattering Information
The nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting provides financial backing to thousands of public radio and television stations, including NPR and PBS. Republicans have succeeding in forcing it to close, making it that much harder for Americans to receive information that …
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Probability and Statistics
If I were designing college curricula, an entry course of probability and statistics might be the only one I’d make mandatory. Want to major in history or English? That’s fine, but I don’t want you to check out of here …
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Trump’s Baseless Accusation that the Top Bureau of Labor Statistics Official Manipulated Jobs Numbers “a Preposterous Charge”
What American actor and activist George Takei says here is 100% accurate. If any sane and decent person were advising Republicans, he’d urge them to cut ties with Trump as soon as possible, and return to some level of credibility …
The People Will Only Stand for So Much
To the author of the meme here: The guillotine was invented about 80 years after Louis XIV, associated with Versailles in late 17th and early 18th Century; it’s known as the instrument that beheaded Louis XVI and Marie Antionette in …
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Nothing New about Trump’s Behavior as Wanna-Be Dictator
Former labor secretary Robert Reich notes at left that Trump’s firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes right out of the playbook of all tyrants.
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Columnist David Brooks on Trumpism
Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s OpEd in the NY Times by David Brooks: “Trumpism… is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless …
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Is Earth a “Group Project?” If So, Is “No One Doing Their Part?”
As a percentage, there are very few people on this planet who view Earth as “one big group project,” but these folks are, in the main, members of the more than 200,000 groups whose purpose is environmental and social justice. …
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