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Thu, August 5, 2021 | 09:45

Why are so many Republicans refusing vaccination

What is the difference between doubt and distrust? Doubt can be overcome by evidence. Distrust cannot.

2021-08-04 16:56

Bankrupted by medical debt

American health care is too expensive. Exhibit A is a new study of Americans' medical debt published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That debt is twice as large as had previously been estimated - $140 billion in collections as of June 2020, compared to an earlier estimate of $81 billion. And it disproportionately affects the dozen states like Missouri that...

2021-08-03 16:58

Why helping Iraq makes strategic sense after end of US combat mission

President Joe Biden declared July 26 that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq would cease by the end of this year. But he also made clear that U.S. forces - probably most of the 2,500 now in the country - would be rebranded to “train, to assist, to help and to deal with ISIS.”

2021-08-02 17:01

Democrats are failing to engage young people

A couple of months ago, I wrote an op-ed for The Progressive magazine about why President Joe Biden needs to build a bridge with young Americans. The nationally syndicated piece drew hundreds of responses from strangers agreeing with my sentiments. But I heard nothing from the one place that mattered most: the White House.

2021-08-02 16:59

Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are deadly, not principled

Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican, is a controversial former police officer and car dealer. The “Cajun John Wayne” is neither a virologist nor an epidemiologist, and he has disclosed that he contracted COVID-19 (or what he calls “the CCP biological attack weaponized virus”) for the second time. He hasn't said if he has been vaccinated but suggested on Facebook that he...

2021-08-01 15:20

Heat waves, wildfires, floods - what's with all the extreme weather?

Reading the news over the past month - or maybe just stepping outside - you could get the sense that something has gone wrong with the weather. One heat wave after another has struck the West Coast, which, as a result, is now on fire. Western Europe has been deluged by rain, killing hundreds. Across Asia, from Japan to Turkey, temperature records have been falling like domino...

2021-07-29 17:00

Simone and us: what to learn from Simone Biles

Six Olympic medals and 25 more from world gymnastics championships is more than enough proof that Simone Biles is a young woman who knows how to withstand pressure and perform with the world watching. But something happened at the Olympics in Tokyo, not to her body but to her mind, the well-being of which is every bit as necessary to nail the landing or complete the seemingly...

2021-07-29 16:45

Too much coverage of rich guys in space

I was already tired of the gee-whiz coverage of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos going into space before Branson actually went there Sunday (July 11) (or, went somewhere close, depending on your definition of space).

2021-07-29 16:21

How Caltech can make amends for illegal drilling near petroglyphs

The petroglyphs were just 3 feet from where the Caltech geology students would drill more than two dozen holes in the rock face, each of them 1 inch in diameter. And yet one of the participants, assigned to do advance scanning, failed to notice the ancient rock art, their professor says.

2021-07-28 17:00

Vaccination requirements deservedly win court battle

A federal judge has ruled that Indiana University has every right to require coronavirus vaccinations before students may return to class. The ruling is based on precedent as well as common sense. It should boggle the minds of smart, thinking people everywhere why educational institutions shouldn't insist on defending the use of science and knowledge to combat the coronavirus...

2021-07-27 16:56

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