I am so not happy to have my Oregon time include another of these insane heat waves. Good times. But my work is in air-conditioned archives or wherever else I want to work during the summer. No real pain for me. A lot of us are...
Other than the New York Times amusing continued unwillingness to write the swear words that dominate American life, this is actually a really important story having to do with the.
Krugman points out that, while the Republican party's COVID denial was in many ways foreshadowed by its (ongoing) climate change denial, the latter actually made a certain amount of perverse.
This is a good run down of where the AFL-CIO stands after Richard Trumka's death. The short version is that there are two legitimate candidates to run the federation. The first is Liz Shuler, who comes out of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and holds...
On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo Revolt began in New Mexico. The most successful Native rebellion in the history of the Americas, this forced the Spanish out of their northern.
Reliable sources tell me that a relative, who had never heard of Viktor Orbán before this week. is now convinced that he's the bee's knees – and anyone who says.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress The Honorable Kathleen L. Kraninger Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tuesday March 12 2019 10am Hard to see how governance gets more responsible than this: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) killed a hard-earned cryptocurrency compromise amendment to the...
The more boring version of Ron DeSantis is doing the same anti-anti-COVID things with similar results: The dilemma sounded familiar. A prominent, ambitious red-state governor, who had staked out a.
A wise decision: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday said he would make Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for U.S. service members effective mid-September.“I strongly encourage all DoD military and civilian.
I’ve had a vision of writing a magisterial series to clarify everything about the mathematics of the pandemic, but it looks more like I will, hit-or-miss, do one issue at a time. I’ve worked with mathematical models for chemical reactions. The math is identical to that...
The "moderate" anti-COVID-mitigation position that is perhaps most common among Republican elites is to acknowledge that COVID is something you probably don't want if you're over 65 or in very.
This is the second half of our podcast interview with Stephen Deusner, author of Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers. In this half we.