By the time ExxonMobil finally paid restitution to the people whose lives were disfigured by the 1989 oil spill from the Exxon Valdez , more than 8000 of them had died, either of the disease the spill caused, or of …
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Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute …
We’re hearing a lot about Trump’s dereliction of duty associated with his letting the insurrection continue for more than three hours before putting a stop to it. (See video linked above.) No doubt there is a case to be made …
A reader notes: Donald Trump just endorsed Viktor Orban. Orban is an anti-Semitic, racist, authoritarian despot who has crushed democratic institutions in Hungary, attacked the free press, and politicized rule of law. No wonder Trump likes him. All our lives …
This stat on Republican scientists sounds about right, but that’s simply a result of the movement of the GOP to the ultra-right and its present-day radical anti-science position. Go back 70 years and look at the demographics at that time. …
The investigation into January 6th is representative of what constitutes the Republican party today: a small group of horrible people at the top, and a limitless mob of hateful idiots at the bottom. From a legal perspective, the mob is …
Here’s a piece from The Economist that takes on the question: Now that we know how terrible coal is for the environment, why is it so devilishly difficult to remove? Well, it’s economics, obviously, or it wouldn’t be covered in …
The COVID-19 pandemic has morphed to the point where we have a fairly mild but extremely transmissible disease. What’s next? No one knows. At least, that’s what my old school chum and now extremely senior epidemiologist Peter Spitzer, MD says. …
I do very little self-loathing….except when I read Andy Borowitz and think: goddammit, why couldn’t I have done this? We all have access to the same information. Why is it so hard to connect the dots? Dot #1: Marjorie Taylor …
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The point being made here may sound obvious to you, but that’s because you’re an educated person who understands a) this core tenet of public schooling, and b) that you’re not well equipped to craft school curricula.
