You’re No Abe Lincoln
If there's one thing you can give Trump credit for, it's chutzpah. OK, it's easy to laugh at his claim to be the best president for blacks since Abe Lincoln. But some of his specific ....
Today's news? I'm still figuring out what happened last year!
If there's one thing you can give Trump credit for, it's chutzpah. OK, it's easy to laugh at his claim to be the best president for blacks since Abe Lincoln. But some of his specific ....
For a few years now, I have been experimenting with a way to display demographic, economic, political, and other data via "size/intensity" or "box" plots. The idea is that if you want to compare some ....
Photo of federal officers, Portland, Oregon, 6/18/20, REUTERS/Nathan Howard, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/federal-government-under-scrutiny-for-crackdown-on-portland-protesters?ref=hvper.com. 1) Everything Trump does is about publicity. He didn't want a Wall to stop illegal immigrants, he wanted a Wall to symbolize stopping illegal immigrants. ....
Jane Mayer’s article “Back to the Jungle,” in the 20 July New Yorker, looks at the labor struggle in a Delaware poultry plant as a microcosm of how food workers in America today are at ....
How is the US doing now that lockdown is being eased in many states? 13 weeks of weekly COVID-19 deaths/capita, for different sets of states. Here is a 3D version of the figure shown in ....
Excel spreadsheet: policeJournalists-1Download Journalists have made numerous reports this past weekend of attacks on themselves by police. This has occurred in many jurisdiction and (especially in Minneapolis) to many different news sources. I've created this ....
It feels like the winter of our covidiscontent has lasted for years, and the date of each new emergency has already become hazy. Therefore I created a chart (see below for image and link to ....
One of the main threats of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it will overwhelm the medical system. Therefore when thinking about that risk, it would be useful to know how big the medical system is. ....
Just the kind of investigative reporting we need (photo NY Times, from start Trump term). News coverage of this crisis is typical: wall-to-wall reporting of a small number of facts over and over again, giant ....
Now What? Benjamin finds peace in solitude, 2010. Now that health experts have convinced governments world-wide to encourage/enforce "social distancing", some uncomfortable questions appear. How much social distance is enough? No school? No meetings of ....