Today's news? I'm still figuring out what happened last year!
The showdown over the debt ceiling has me going back to basics of the government. Part I will look at overall spending by the federal government in recent decades and years, and Part II will look at what that spending is for.
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“We went through the same training … Shooting after creating an event where you have to shoot, is not a good shoot.”
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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 can be curtailed by an administrator blocking a group from inviting someone due to their political views, or by people exercising the “heckler’s veto” and shouting over the speaker so s/he can’t be heard,
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A declaration of neutrality for Ukraine will do no more to end this war than the 2010 law enshrining Ukrainian neutrality did to prevent it.
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Are we to believe that the Russians would have retreated back to the 23 February lines if not for something Boris Johnson whispered in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ear?
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It isn’t hard to make a good topographic map, which is why its strange that so many are really bad.
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With the UN estimating that the world population reached eight billion people on 15 November 2022, now is a good time to look at where those people live.
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I want to revisit the homicide statistics because they are complicated by the enormous disparity between victimization among whites and blacks. The horrifyingly high murder rate of African Americans means that homicide rates may be elevated in a state because of a large African American population. How do comparisons among states look when we take this into account?
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So much has been going on lately in the news that I created a chart to keep track of all (that is: some) of it.
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Efforts to trim our climate-altering emissions are winning, but they are still not winning fast enough. For many people, the easiest and most consequential decision they can make to protect the climate is to vote.
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