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There’s no denying that Beto O’Rourke is the poster boy for white privilege. I mean, what else explains him losing a celebrated bid to win a Senate seat in Texas; opting for a road trip to contemplate his navel and decide his next move (most people would’ve had to get back to work); and then… Read more.
President Trump’s blusterous ignorance is surpassed only by his dangerous delusions. He might even think a lie becomes the truth if he keeps repeating it boldly and loudly enough. Only this explains his dogged claim that the United States is “collecting tens of billions of dollars from China in tariffs.” It is not – as… Read more.
Reports about African migrants dying to breathe free have become normalized, so much so that they hardly register in public consciousness, let alone prick our collective conscience. At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. … The incident is thought to be one of the… Read more.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is trending for insisting that the only way to hold it accountable is to break up its social-media monopoly. Clueless Facebook responded by insisting that it’s too successful to break up. This might sound like big banks insisting that they’re too big to fail. Except that it’s even more absurd and… Read more.
I have been warning for years about the Orwellian machinations of tech companies. I refer you to such commentaries as “Tech Companies Worse than Snowden’s Bogeyman NSA,” March 3, 2017, and “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic…and Misguided,” June 8, 2013. The latter includes the following: In this Information Age, tech companies like Google, Amazon,… Read more.
The New York Times – of all papers – published an anti-Semitic cartoon on April 25. It depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog leading US President Donald Trump as a blind man. This incited unprecedented condemnation, and rightly so. The literary allusion in my title is decidedly more flattering. But I hope… Read more.
President Trump is notoriously thin-skinned. And nothing gets under it quite like observations that he’s behaving just like his predecessor, Barack Obama. Yet there’s no denying that he’s behaving towards Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro just as Obama did towards Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. No doubt you recall Obama declaring that Assad must go: The future… Read more.
The return of this scourge has been driven by one factor in particular: misinformation, spread by vaccine critics, that scares parents into not immunizing their children. Along with rumors that vaccines cause autism or that the trace amounts of mercury and aluminum in them are dangerous — falsehoods that were long ago debunked — have… Read more.
President Trump said Friday that the United States did not pay any money to North Korea, which had issued a $2 million bill for the hospice care of American Otto Warmbier, the comatose University of Virginia student sent home from Pyongyang in 2017. … Warmbier, who was 21, fell into a coma for unknown reasons… Read more.
