Terrain Maps Lack Depth
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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Where Are Those Eight Billion People?
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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States, Race, Politics, & Murder
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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Five Years of Recent History
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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Virginia Voters Face Clear Climate Choices in Congressional Races
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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Ukraine War Territory
Despite these Ukrainian victories, Russia still controls most of the territory that they seized between 24 February and 26 April – my guess is about 80%.
Read MoreWhat was Wrong with Samuel Alito’s Speech?
Remember, to Samuel Alito, “religious liberty” appears to be “the triumph of Catholicism.” Is he really working to defend the Constitution, or to bring about this triumph?
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Samuel Alito’s Version of Religious Liberty
Justice Alito believes that religion will ultimately prevail.
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Taiwan is not Ukraine
Legal, strategic, and military aspects of NATO’s friction with Russia argue for an all-out effort to dislodge Russia from Ukraine, at least from territory taken this year. At the same time, legal, strategic, and military considerations make it much less clear that the US should make as strong a commitment to the defense of Taiwan.
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Originalist When Expedient
Neutrality is indeed a worthy goal for the courts, but we are now getting the worst of all worlds: a court that is imposing its own political opinions on the law, and one that is doing so in pursuit of a country that is less free, less fair, and less safe.
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