This is the grave of Eleazar Wheelock. Born in Windham, Connecticut in 1711, Wheelock grew up in what passed for the elite of the early 18th century, which wasn't really that wealthy. But his family had a pretty big farm and he got to go to...
And, hence, the Republican Party's: There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year, almost 4.5 times the total for all of last year and on track to.
The first 20 years of Trump's second term have been exhausting: President Trump‘s barrage of new tariffs drove stocks lower on Monday and moved trade tensions back to the forefront on.
As bad as the "citizen of Uganda with Indian parents identified himself as Indian-American and Ugandan on his admissions form to a college he did not get accepted at" non-story was on its face, it looks a lot worse now: The story, published late last week,...
Well this is weird. A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form of life. The revelation occurred after the research vessel Blue.
The Player of Games is a staple of my "Science Fiction and Politics" syllabus. I've guided discussions of the book at least ten times. So I'll just say this: when.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are not stupid guys and their abundance arguments aren't nonsense. But they are written from a perspective so unquestioning of corporate power and its problems that the blinders really limit what this perspective could offer, both in terms of politics and...
While Trump and RFK are doing whatever possible to ensure that Americans don't get vaccinated, the administration is also Making America Healthy Again by ensuring that forever chemicals don't get.
Will America's non-fascist party have the will to purge the government of fascists? That's the question JV Last is asking, and apparently we're not going to like the answer, although.
We haven't had a thread about Elon Musk's new political party yet, so here we go: U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out against Elon Musk after he formed a new political party, calling the move “ridiculous,” and saying the tech billionaire had gone “completely off the...
This is the grave of James Merrill. Born in 1926 in New York City, Merill grew up extremely wealthy. Like his father is the Merrill of Merrill Lynch levels of.
Investigations into the Guadalupe River flood and its horrible aftermath will have to try to determine why the accurate information about this impending flooding the NWS had did not reach.