In the YouTube video (below), Economics Professor Michael Hudson comments on the economic consequences of Trump’s and Israel’s unprovoked war against Iran: “That’s going to cause such a shortage that it’s going to cause an international depression worse than the 1930s. And the reason why it’s worse than the Great Depression is because that…
Sierra Voices Editor notes: The authors of this series on joy say that their articles are aimed at those in their 20s and 30s. But — speaking as an elderly — I feel it applies equally, perhaps even more powerfully, to my gang. [Don] Jolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and…
Maria Popova’s “Brain Pickings” is a free weekly digest — emailed on Sunday — in which she reviews books, both new and classic. She has the sensibility of a poet, and her reviews are a pure joy to read. Here’s an excerpt from today’s edition: Wintering: Resilience, the Wisdom of Sadness, and How the…
by Don Pelton Congressman and Constitutional scholar Jamie Raskin loves the Constitution, and his fight to preserve it against the depredations of Trump and Trumpism is now amplified by his love for his adult son, Tommy, “a radiant light in this broken world,” who tragically lost his life to depression “on the last hellish…