Paulo Verardi, University of Connecticut Spring has sprung, and there is a sense of relief in the air. After one year of lockdowns and social distancing, more than 171 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. and about 19.4% of the population is fully vaccinated. But there is something else in…
Could the U.S. and China Face an Unintended Blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden Years? BY MICHAEL KLARE Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com The leaders of China and the United States certainly don’t seek a war with each another. Both the Biden administration and the regime of Chinese President Xi Jinping view economic…
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, the inside story of how scientists working at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider found tantalising new evidence that could mean we have to rethink what we know about the universe. And an update on the situation for Rohingya refugees…
Covid may soon be the least of our worries By Thom Hartmann Reprinted by permission of the author As more Americans are getting vaccinated, there’s a sense of relief washing over the country that’s almost giddy. But we’re not out of the Covid woods yet, and, in some ways, it’s distracted us from a…
By Don There’s a moment at the beginning of the Tina Turner biopic (“What’s Love Got to Do With It?”) that’s so endearing and so uplifting that we’ve used this short excerpt below from the movie ever since as good medicine to cheer us up whenever we feel like being cheered up: Nevertheless, she…