https://leemcintyrebooks.com/ While science denial is a precursor to reality denial on many fronts in our society, it can result in impacts as serious as life and death. For instance, if enough people don’t get the COVID vaccine, allow it to hang around and mutate, even the vaccinated may be at great risk. So, while philosopher …
https://www.amazon.com/Humane-United-States-Abandoned-Reinvented/dp/0374173702 Since 9/11, America has found itself embroiled in endless war, little discussed and rarely debated, either in barrooms or Congress. We just are. It is interesting how little attention conflicts of various forms get given the trillions of dollars we spend on defense and the fact that we have Special Forces in more than …
https://bencoes.com/ Will over the horizon technological responses cut it in places, like Afghanistan, where American boots on the ground have been replaced with eyes in the skies? That’s the gist of the conversation we have with Ben Coes, author of ‘The Island’, a story of terror in Manhattan as seen through the imagination of a …
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/new-book-tolls-uncertainty-examines-us-unemployment-system/ America is country that values hard work, almost above all else. When you meet a stranger, one of the first questions is ‘so what do you do’? Our occupation is often how we are defined and our value established in this culture. It then makes it all the more difficult and painful to find …
https://www.fairelectionscenter.org/ Over 60 court challenges were dismissed relating to voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, but that has not deterred former President Trump in mounting a crusade to undo many ballot access initiatives that came about in the wake of the hotly contest 2000 presidential campaign. No excuse absentee ballot, early voting, …
https://www.montana.edu/nursing/dr_peter_buerhaus_research/ America has a nursing shortage’ scream the headlines. And that’s true and will be for the foreseeable future. Is the reason all to do with COVID? No, but clearly it has had a dampening impact on the numbers of nurses and their perception of whether they want to stay in the field going forward. …
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Public-Promise-Interest-Technology/dp/0691207755 In most states, the Department of Motor Vehicles is the poster child for government inefficiency. New systems are touted and yet the lines and the bureaucracy often grind down the citizen interacting with it. This is especially notable in a society where private companies know so much about us that the interaction with them …
https://www.amazon.com/H.-W.-Brands/e/B000AQ26V0%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Conservatism has been the prevailing political ideology in America since the 1980’s, when Ronald Reagan’s brand came to dominate America’s political culture. It was a rather pragmatic version, often cutting deals with Democrats to get 80 percent of what he wanted. His belief that winning elections was for the purpose of governing. Much of …
https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Upon-Us-Conspiracy-Everything-ebook/dp/B08S6YQ1KF On January 6, 2021, the day our Capitol was invaded by insurrectionists, QAnon became the most violent manifestation of its most fervent fever dreams and joined with other right wing extremists of all stripes to declare that ‘the storm’ they have long talked about was here. Mike Rothschild a chronicler of the movement since …
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/clifford-winston/ Democrats and Republicans agree on little else, but both seem to buy into the notion that heavy expenditures on capital projects related to infrastructure will reap great dividends for the near and long term. Who can argue that new roads, bridges, water systems and broadband enhancement are not beneficial? But are the use of …