What are the odds that on the same day I receive a journalism award from a human rights organization, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, for a cartoon on school shootings that’s there’s another school shooting? In this country where polit…
What’s In a Name? A Hurricane Name, That Is.
NOAA Night satellite image of Hurricane Ida If your name is included in the following list, you could be destined to become (in)famous later this year: Alex, Bonnie, Colin, Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston, Hermine, Ian, Julia, Karl, Lisa, Martin, Nicole,…
What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousin
What is monkeypox? A microbiologist explains what’s known about this smallpox cousinMonkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over.CDC/Getty Images Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University On May 18, 2022, Massach…
Appealing to Trump (and his base) might have worked in Pennsylvania primaries – but it won’t play so well in the midterms
The doctor is in … with Trump, at least.AP Photo/Gene J. Puska Daniel J. Mallinson, Penn State The Pennsylvania primaries of May 17, 2022, proved a good night for Donald Trump, a better one for “Trumpism” and a problem for moderates hoping for a candid…
TOURS FOR TERRORISTS
The January 6 Committee is asking Republican House member Barry Loudermilk to voluntarily testify about a tour he gave of the capitol on January 5, 2021. For the slow kids (Republicans), January 5th was the day before January 6th, the day of the Trump …
ULTRA MEGA
So there’s a MAGA lunatic running for the United States Senate in the Republican primaries. You’re probably thinking to yourself, “they’re all lunatics.” And you’re right. So, what makes this MAGA lunatic different from all the other lunatics? The only…
More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores — 13% of shooters are motivated by race, criminologists find
Racial hatred is a factor in 13% of mass shootings at grocery stores.John Normile/Getty Images Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, Ne…
What’s behind the US infant formula shortage – and how to make sure it doesn’t happen again
No easy formula.Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Steven A. Abrams, University of Texas at Austin A baby formula shortage has added to the woes of American parents already confronted with the pressures of raising an infant during a pandemic in a co…
Ukraine’s information war is winning hearts and minds in the West
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is introduced to the US Congress by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on March 16, 2022 in Washington, DC.J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images Michael Butler, Clark University Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has do…
Use of ‘white privilege’ makes online discussions more polarized and less constructive
A protestor holds a sign reading ‘White Privilege Is The Problem’ at a rally against policy brutality and racial injustice in New York on Sept. 5, 2020.Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Christopher Quarles, University of Michigan A wide variet…