Four days before the 2024 election, Donald Trump declared in Dearborn, Michigan that “the Muslim population” is “liking Trump.” On Election Day, the state’s Arab Americans helped deliver Trump...
Trump amplified a plan for expedited legal pathways for Jewish Canadians fleeing antisemitic persecution as Christian lawmakers press his administration.
I’m not a science guy, and chances are, neither are you. But when you start to notice that a series of controversial tech-related headlines are starting to sound an awful lot like a previous science-driven, pandemic-causing tech disaster, maybe it’s time for us lay-folk to weigh in and point out the obvious. I am an […]
Congress has already taken the necessary steps to close the dangerous “hemp loophole.” Now, the House of Representatives has a simple choice: uphold the law and protect children, or grant the intoxicating hemp industry another opportunity to profit from an addiction-for-profit business model. The Senate recently passed a continuing resolution that would delay implementation of […]
Surveillance tech vendor Flock Safety is making some changes to both its policies and messaging following months of backlash over its products — namely, its automatic license plate readers, commonly referred to as ALPRs. Often presented by proponents as an indispensable crime-fighting tool for 21st-century policing, the devices have long been criticized by groups such as the […]
In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what happens when inherited moral maps lose their force, and human beings must create values from strength rather than receive them. The anniversary is worth marking for a second reason. At the same […]
Even an illusion has a basis in reality. Recently, I watched a cardinal attack its own reflection in a car mirror, mistaking its appearance for another bird. Human beings make similar mistakes in subtler ways. Every work of art appears to place another consciousness before us. Whether watching a magic trick or standing before a […]
The practice of medicine requires a high level of personal accountability. Physicians make life-or-death decisions every day, accepting the profound legal and ethical duties that come with caring for human lives. Yet, the greatest source of daily stress for healthcare providers is no longer the complexity of human disease. It is the invisible wall of […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is capable of deciding that he wants to run to become the leader of the free world, but the California governor can’t take a stand on a question as simple as whether the University of California system ought to heed the warning from 1,200 professors that they “now observe preparation gaps […]
In less than three weeks, American medicine produced two milestones worth noticing. On Aug. 5, the Food and Drug Administration approved MFLUSIVA, Moderna’s influenza vaccine for adults 50 and older — the first flu vaccine in the United States built with messenger RNA, or mRNA. Two weeks later, Moderna and Merck announced positive Phase 3 […]
Whether it’s the President Donald Trump assassination attempts, the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, or the assassination of Charlie Kirk, America seems riddled with political violence. This might seem all too common in America, but what if this isn’t simply an American phenomenon? Australia is beginning to show some of the […]
In early 2022, China launched the Eastern Data and Western Compute initiative, a cornerstone of President Xi Jinping’s long-standing ambition to establish Chinese dominance in artificial intelligence. The logic behind the EDWC is simple: AI relies on data centers, and data centers require massive amounts of power. While China’s population — and therefore most of […]
We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
