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…
How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone Nükhet Varlik, University of South Carolina When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue….
The best political commentary I’ve read in months: Gore Vidal, one of America’s best chroniclers of empire, once provided instruction to a British interviewer expressing confusion over the radical hostility Republicans showed toward Barack Obama, and the former president’s inability to react with equal aggression: “Obama believes the Republican Party is a political party…