Childish oversimplification seems to be spreading throughout public discourse. Maybe it’s the character limits on tweets. Maybe it’s the second limits between commercials. Maybe it’s two-party politics. Maybe it’s an excess of...
21 November 2017
Are veterans of the U.S. military disproportionately likely to be mass killers in the United States? Asking such a question is difficult, first because of concerns of profiling, discrimination, etc., and second, because it’s hard to...
16 November 2017
“Let me be clear: The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.” – UN...
02 November 2017
Basically, it’s kidnapping.
Were the Border Patrol agents wearing MAGA hats when they grabbed Rosa Maria Hernandez as she left her hospital room?...
30 October 2017
The swampish saga would be hard to invent. In early October, Puerto Rico’s Energy Power Authority awarded a $300 million tax-funded contract to reconstruct the island’s hurricane devastated power grid to a two-...
28 October 2017
“. . . insects as a group are in terrible trouble and the remorselessly expanding human enterprise has become too much, even for them.”
And...
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