Editor’s Note: The “red shift” Thom Hartmann mentions in this article refers to the discrepancy between exit polls and actual election outcomes (which, up until a couple of decades ago, used to track very closely). If this difference was due to random errors, we would expect it to favor the two parties about equally,…
By Don Pelton A “Bag of Marbles” is another one of those WWII movies that invariably makes me grateful that we in the United States have never lived under a fascist regime … and now I have to say “so far.” It’s that caveat that makes this story still relevant for our perilous time,…
By Don Pelton I started listening to this latest video from the Lincoln Project (a group of long-time GOP consultants), which has been issuing a steady stream of blistering ads against Trump and his GOP enablers, but — not being very young — I was put off by the musical style and was about…
Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University The yearly influenza season threatens to make the COVID-19 pandemic doubly deadly, but I believe that this isn’t inevitable. There are two commonly given vaccines – the pneumococcal vaccine and the Hib vaccine – that protect against bacterial pneumonias. These bacteria complicate both influenza and COVID-19, often leading to…
Meghan E. Rebuli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill If you ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, they’ll often tell you with an accompanying eye roll, “He’s such a baby.” “He’s extra whiny.” Or “he exaggerates so much.” But there may be a biological…