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Science

Science under threat

Mar 20, 2025

The new Republican regime in Washington is waging a veritable war on science. This isn’t something we are unfamiliar with in this country. Science was…

Featured

It’s the cruelty that appals

Mar 16, 2025

The chaos taking place in Washington reminds me of Bananas, Woody Allen’s comedy about revolution in a fictitious Latin American republic. Only it isn’t funny.…

Political science

Can we escape our nature?

Mar 11, 2025

In a recent New York Times article, editorial board member Farah Stockman refers to Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy as “Neanderthal realism.” She defines this…

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Well said, Justin

Mar 6, 2025

Let us consider the ways the United States has betrayed us. First and foremost is the trashing of the trade deal, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement…

Environment International

Big environmental win sans the U.S.

Mar 4, 2025

The U.S., under new management, has taken a remarkable U-turn. Long recognized as the “leader of the free world,” it now seems to have switched…

United States

Adjusting to the new America

Feb 27, 2025

When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, I despaired. The American people had elected a buffoon. I had no doubt this would do some…

United States

Must we talk interminably about this Trump person?

Feb 19, 2025

Donald Trump has figured much in my posts lately. And it irks me. Why am I wasting so much of my time on a vulgar…

United States

So much for those checks and balances

Feb 17, 2025

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed…

International

The world regresses

Feb 13, 2025

Lord Peter Mandelson has not always been a fan of Donald Trump. The long-time member of the British Labour Party and former cabinet minister, has…

International

And what about the .70 percent?

Feb 11, 2025

In these days of increasing international tensions, we hear incessantly about the magic two percent. Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have agreed…

International

Is this what the Gaza invasion was all about?

Feb 8, 2025

It seems that no indignity is too great for the people of Gaza. After being subjected to perhaps the most horrific assault of the 21st…

Religion United States

Christianity, Trump and the evangelicals

Feb 7, 2025

One of the many curiosities about American Christianity is how a godless man like Donald Trump has managed to gain more devoted support from white…

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    23 March 2024
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    26 February 2023
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