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Sun, May 22, 2022 | 23:35

Fossil fuel divestment prompts backlash

The oil billionaires are sweating. And it's college students who are turning up the heat.

2022-02-27 16:29

Why Putin's Ukraine aggression will change the world - an explainer on how we got here

The world is reacting to Vladimir Putin's new invasion of eastern Ukraine, as Western nations try forestall a wider invasion. I just returned from two weeks in Ukraine and Lithuania, where I spoke to leaders and everyday citizens about the crisis. Here is some background context to help untangle the complex details. Why does Vladimir Putin want to invade Ukraine?

2022-02-24 16:50

Omicron won't be the last coronavirus variant to haunt us

Think back to late June 2021, when there was containment of the American COVID-19 pandemic with fewer than 12,000 new cases a day and a total of 15,000 patients in the hospital. There was a declaration of independence from the virus on July 4, just as the delta variant was starting its exponential growth. A major surge ensued, which was followed by yet another one with the om...

2022-02-24 16:27

Who needs an invasion? Putin's offensive against Ukraine has been underway for a long time

Vladimir Putin and his aides have long insisted that they have no intention of starting a war with Ukraine. President Joe Biden said Friday that U.S. intelligence has concluded that the Russian president has made the decision to invade.

2022-02-23 16:12

Rogue military unit is Israel's weakest link

It's not very often that an event in the West Bank village of Jililya garners the attention of members of the U.S. Congress from Wisconsin. But the killing of a 78-year-old Palestinian American from Milwaukee by soldiers of Israel's ultra-Orthodox battalion has embarrassed Jerusalem, infuriated the U.S. State Department and placed a new stumbling block on the already rocky ro...

2022-02-22 16:36

GOP's cancel culture warriors

Lauren Boebert, the congresswoman from Colorado, just blocked me on Twitter. This comes as no surprise, given that she follows in her MAGA mentor Donald Trump's footsteps.

2022-02-21 16:34

Racial bias in retail stores is real

Two Black men recently filed a lawsuit against Walmart for racial discrimination and false arrest, alleging that they were accused of shoplifting and subsequently detained and handcuffed in a Texas Walmart store after trying to return a defective TV. While the plaintiffs may prevail under their false arrest account, it is much more doubtful that they can win on their race dis...

2022-02-20 16:45

US approach to early childhood education is completely unsustainable

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming attrition and turnover in the early education workforce has gotten even worse. Prior to the pandemic, turnover in the field was already as high as 30 percent annually. During the pandemic, the workforce shrank by an additional 10 percent.

2022-02-17 16:36

US's $7 billion betrayal of Afghanistan

Out of all the actions the Biden administration could have taken on Afghanistan, commandeering the nation's foreign currency reserves is, to put it mildly, unhelpful.

2022-02-16 16:36

20 years on, here's the legacy of American torture in war on terror

Remember when the George W. Bush administration began sweeping up suspected terrorists and whisking them off, hooded and shackled, to offshore CIA “black sites” around the world where they were tortured into confessing to all sorts of crimes?

2022-02-16 16:33

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