As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic nears, focus is naturally on the number of infections, deaths, and hospitalizations, especially as scientists closely watch the omicron "close cousin" subvariant, BA.2.
While infection and mortality rates...
Climate change is not typically something that energizes the so-called "Christian" right.
The single issue animating those who argue against women's right to their own reproductive health is abortion.
But the climate crisis and anti-choice activists' cries...
It's bad.
Really bad.
Some phrases climate experts are using now are “record-shattering,” “out of time,” “unprecedented,” and even “irreversible.”
Several previously optimistic about our ability to mitigate the worst of the climate emergency are now becoming more...
"Bleak."
"Getting worse."
"Record-shattering."
"Out of time."
"Deadly."
These are the phrases being used lately to report on the climate emergency.
Here are some recent headlines:
Associated Press: "Heat wave grips US West amid fear of a new, hotter normal"
Yahoo:...
After Democratic backlash ensued regarding the Biden administration’s decision to maintain the Trump-era cap on refugees permitted to enter the United States, the White House increased the cap.
President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress was...
When the world shut down last year for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, something happened to the air.
It got cleaner.
According to Global Carbon Project researchers, carbon emissions dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 due to reduced...
Texas is synonymous with the oft-cited American ethos of "rugged individualism".
But perhaps that obstinance has finally come at a dangerous and expensive cost.
As President Joe Biden on Saturday approved a major disaster declaration for Texas after...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight--two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden...
During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump Jr. stated COVID-19 infection rates have dropped to "almost nothing."
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1322001939266109441
If over nine million is "next to nothing," when does it get to be "something"?
We shouldn't...
There’s been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a pangolin?
Was it...
In 2017, Donald Trump announced the United States would be withdrawing from the landmark Paris Climate Accords, for which the formal withdrawal process began this past November and is expected to conclude this November 4th--that...
There's been a lot of finger pointing over where the coronavirus originated.
Did it come out of a Huanan seafood market, otherwise known as a wet market, in Wuhan, China?
Was it transmitted to humans from a...
Two year ago, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulators decreed they would no longer rigidly enforce emissions standards for cars and trucks, arguing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan timeline is not appropriate and standards are “too high.”
While the nation...
Well, here we are, in a full-blown public health emergency and the federal government whose job it is to provide the necessary precautions and reassurance is acting as though we are immune from any exposure.
One...
The assaults on women's reproductive rights just keep getting crueler.
Earlier this year, Alabama opened the proverbial reproductive flood gates after governor Kay Ivey signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation that argues life begins...
In June of 2015, Donald Trump stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords.
So much has transpired the past two years, it's easy to forget.
Yet...
If only Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Ursula LeGuin, and Ray Bradbury were around to see this.
Could the Star Wars movies and Star Trek be classified as documentaries now?
On Monday, amid the human rights violations we are perpetrating...
"Religious freedom."
It doesn't sound so bad, does it?
Who would be opposed to it?
In fact, the First Amendment makes it clear we have a tacit freedom of religion when its states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting...
Apparently we don't have to fear climate change anymore.
That is if we go by a move the Trump administration made this week when it dropped climate change from a list of global threats.
Instead, President Trump's National...
Earlier this week, video footage of U.S. Navy aircraft tracking an unidentified flying object (UFO) surfaced. This revealed the existence of a multimillion-dollar partially classified Department of Defense (DOD) program. Within the DOD's $600 billion...
