Today's news? I'm still figuring out what happened last year!
The Louisiana legislature voted to require all schools receiving state funds to display a large poster showing the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Texas has considered a similar law. Earlier, Alabama Supreme Court justice Roy ....
How much is freedom of speech on campus under attack? Here I’m referring specifically to the freedom for someone affiliated with the university to invite a speaker to give a talk on campus. This freedom ....
Conservatives have argued that Roe v. Wade was a bad decision because it created a right which was not present in the Constitution. Nowhere does the Constitution say anything about a right to abortion; therefore, ....
I saw a few advertisements for the 14 May day of action in support of abortion rights. In the wake of the leaked Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade, I thought the rallies ....
A chart showing forty years of Senate confirmation votes for Supreme Court justices illustrates the growing divide in America. The path to today’s divisions has a complex history. The First Fights Back in the 1980s, ....
Why Think About the Question? In school we learned about the Growth of Democracy. The ancient Greek city-states invented it, but most societies were too primitive to be governed in this way. It was not ....
For Americans 50-79 years old, Covid deaths among the unvaccinated were about half as large as deaths from all causes in 2019. Among vaccinated from the same age group, Covid deaths were about 3% of ....
The CDC reports that, based on a survey of health data from regions comprising about 30% of the total US population, in August vaccinated people had six time’s smaller chance of testing positive for Covid ....
PDF version of post Download Abstract A scatter plot shows the empirical relationship between new case loads and vaccination rates for Covid-19 among different US states in early Spring 2021. There is a large scatter ....
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued new guidance for mask wearing and other Covid-19 preventative measures based on vaccination status. They include a graphic summary, which I've simplified here. I think theirs is ....