Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Article Source: The Washington Post
03/23/2021
World Happiness Report is out, with a surprising picture of global resilience
In a conclusion that even surprised its editors, the 2021 World Happiness Report found that, amid global hardship, self-reported life satisfaction across 95 countries on average remained steady in 2020 from the previous year.
03/21/2021
Drug companies defend vaccine monopolies in face of global outcry
As immunization gap widens between rich and poor countries, the industry faces a battle over patents and know-how
03/19/2021
Romney says he cares about racial justice. Now’s his chance to vote that way.
H.R. 1 and H.R. 4 will test his willingness to buck the GOP on voting rights.
03/17/2021
Japan’s failure to recognize same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, court rules
A Japanese court ruled on Wednesday that the government's failure to recognize same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, a landmark decision that brought joy and hope to the LGBT community.
03/16/2021
The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change
Bryan Stevenson, 61, is a lawyer and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which advocates for death-row inmates and a fair criminal justice system.
03/09/2021
Age-based vaccine distribution is not only unethical. It’s also bad health policy.
It abdicates the government’s responsibility to seek equity and proactively reach out to high-risk people in search of the mirage of value neutrality.
03/04/2021
Biden is showing the world that U.S. government can work again
The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it is not too soon to point to its most impressive accomplishment, one that will have major implications for years to come.
02/24/2021
The Joy of Vax: The People Giving the Shots are Seeing Hope, and it’s Contagious
The happiest place in medicine is a COVID vaccination clinic.
02/12/2021
What Are We Waiting For?
We could reach herd immunity so much faster.
02/11/2021
On the domestic front, Biden is all ambition. Why not on foreign policy?
While the Biden administration has adopted a confident, assertive stance on domestic policy, on foreign policy it has taken a strikingly different approach—hesitant, diffident and fixated on preemptively mollifying its Republican critics.
02/04/2021
Republicans Have Been Living the Big Lie for Too Long
The GOP is getting burned by the fire it has been playing with for generations.
01/26/2021