Amanda Gorman described the possibilities of a post-Trump era.
The Laws of Physics, Gamesmanship and American Politics
Columns
Hate Speech Isn’t Free Speech
The First Amendment is being weaponized by hate mongers.
Maskless Mobs and Their Collateral Damage
Maskless domestic terrorists refuse to take simple precautions to avoid infecting other people with COVID-19.
Brats, Tantrums, Human Vectors of Disease
Why are those on the right willing to endanger the health and well-being of millions of fellow Americans?
The Double Bind of Living a Long Time in America
In America, what awaits us as we age is not a national health system that honors the accomplishment of living long but one full of holes that often prey on the elderly.
The Impact of Pollution on Public Health
It’s not going too far to say that the environment of the modern world is a chaos of human-caused pollution — from plastics, industrial solvents, radioactive contamination, pesticides, mercury and continent-sized islands of waste in the oceans to CO2 and methane in the atmosphere, fumes from household cleaners, oil and gasoline in aquifers, hormones in […]
Is Optimism a Necessary Mental State to Cultivate on the Verge of Dire Times?
It’s not Pollyannaish to say “yes” to a form of practical optimism when the world’s been given a near-fatal diagnosis of economic enfeeblement and overwhelming human tragedy and displacement caused by climate change. Pessimism is a paralytic agent. It’s worse than any dire prognosis itself. It’s like being a fly bitten by a spider, rendered […]