Opinion | Would You Kill 500,000 Owls to Save Some Others?
Very soon, the federal government may authorize the killing of nearly a half-million barred owls in the Pacific Northwest in a desperate bid to save the northern spotted owl. The…
Opinion | Judge Kamala Harris on the Merits — Not Which Box She Checks
“Aren’t you thrilled to see a woman running for president? Isn’t it great?” Like many women, I’ve faced variations on this question multiple times since Kamala Harris became the presumptive…
Texas Energy So Bountiful, They Pay You to Take It Away
Two years ago, natural-gas prices surged after Russia invaded Ukraine and restricted supplies of the fuel to many European countries, terrifying Western leaders. Now, the fuel is so abundant that…
Where Are the Trumpiest Ads? All Over Truth Social.
Days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump last month, Ben Wolfgram, the president of a family-run glassware business in Wisconsin, started advertising a new product on…
How Hearing and Vision Loss Increase the Risk of Dementia
Adults over age 65 who experience vision loss have a nearly 50 percent increased risk of developing dementia. If those vision problems are corrected, that risk drops dramatically. That’s according…
Why Kenya Stopped Running From Its Doping Past
No country competing in the track and field competition at the Paris Olympics has had its athletes subjected to more drug testing than Kenya in recent years. There is a…
7 Years After ‘Summer of Hell,’ the Subway Is Approaching Another Crisis
Seven years ago, after a series of subway failures so severe that a stretch of 2017 came to be known as the Summer of Hell, New York officials came up…
World-Ending Maneuvers? Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post describes the operations of a lobbying coalition most of you probably have not heard about: the ICBM lobby. The article describes how an initiative which is…
No Hands, Please: We’re Dutch
Duco Telgenkamp came to the Paris Olympics with his strategy clear in his mind. The keys, he knew, were to be decisive and clear and, above all, to go early.…
What Works in Taiwan Doesn’t Always in Arizona, a Chipmaking Giant Learns
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the world’s biggest makers of advanced computer chips, announced plans in May 2020 to build a facility on the outskirts of Phoenix. Four years…