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Wed, January 27, 2021 | 03:55

Congressional scrutiny of technology platforms - Google and Facebook -welcome

Congress is doing a tremendous service by scrutinizing the excessive, harmful market power of online platforms such as Google and Facebook.

2020-08-12 17:14

Nuclear threat US posed still terrifying

The bombs dropped by the United States on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago, in the final days of World War II, incinerated some 200,000 people, most of them civilians.

2020-08-11 16:50

Stronger hurricanes, worsened wildfires, record heat : the climate warnings march on

After a stifling hot July that saw 25 days of 90-degree-plus weather _ breaking a record that stood for nearly a century and a half _ August swept into Maryland with tornadoes and torrential rain from Tropical Storm Isaias. While severe weather is not a new phenomenon, experts warn that this pattern of stronger, wetter hurricanes and tropical storms, and longer stretches of h...

2020-08-10 17:06

TikTok gambit hits a wall

The social media app TikTok has been downloaded more than 175 million times in the U.S. alone since its global launch in 2018. But now it's going viral for reasons other than teens dancing or cooking in pajamas.

2020-08-07 17:04

No to a US-China cold war

The announcement Friday that Hong Kong's legislative elections, originally scheduled for September, would be delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic is the latest example of the increasing authoritarianism in China. It came weeks after Beijing adopted a new security law that ostensibly prohibits "secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces" but ...

2020-08-04 17:01

Life on Mars? We need to affirm.

From writer H.G. Wells to filmmaker Ridley Scott, the possibility of life on Mars has long sparked the public's imagination for generations. And if there ever was a time when a world could use a demonstration of the power of science, or at least a hopeful distraction, it is in the Year of Oh-My-Lord 2020.

2020-08-04 17:01

What Pompeo gets right - and wrong - about China

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a grand failure. "What do the American people have to show now 50 years on from engagement with China?" Pompeo asked. His answer: not much.

2020-08-03 17:07

Trump's promotion of 'demon sperm' doctor bodes ill for any second term

Trump's promotion of 'demon sperm' doctor bodes ill for any second term

When the leader of the “free world” promotes a quack who states that gynecological problems are caused by sex with demons, you know the free world is in big, big trouble. What else can you say when President Donald Trump touts Dr. Stella Immanuel, who claims “spirit husbands” and “spirit wives” visit humans in their dreams, and cause fibroids and impotence? Trump retweeted a ...

2020-08-02 17:06

Eugenics, Bernard Shaw and need for dramatic reckoning

On Monday (July 20), Planned Parenthood removed the name of Margaret Sanger from its health clinic in Manhattan. By way of explanation, the organization cited its founder's “harmful connections to the eugenics movement.” So is this now curtains for George Bernard Shaw? How about H.G. Wells and his “The War of the Worlds”? Henrik Ibsen and his “A Doll's House”? T.S. Eliot? Vir...

2020-07-30 17:31

Facing resistance, Putin needs Trump win more than ever

Facing resistance, Putin needs Trump win more than ever

Four thousand miles west of Portland, Oregon, clear across the Pacific Ocean, there are other political demonstrations that deserve our attention.In Russia's far eastern city of Khabarovsk, near the Chinese border, tens of thousands of angry Russians have turned out for three weeks to protest the arrest of a popular young governor. Sergei Furgal was pulled from his car, bundl...

2020-07-30 17:30

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