Jason R. Kilmer, University of Washington and Christine M. Lee, University of Washington In a trend that coincided with the pandemic, marijuana use among college students in 2020 reached levels not seen since the 1980s. That’s according to the latest research from Monitoring the Future – an annual survey that looks at drug and…
We stopped listening to Bill Maher a couple of years ago, but this (8+ minute) rant from his show yesterday has gone viral, and so … it caught my attention. It’s far from funny, but all too plausible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cR4fXcsu9w See also below “How Democracies Die” (Short Answer: “When one of the major political parties…
Susan C. Faircloth, Colorado State University Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy of the man credited with “discovering” the New World – are almost as old as the nation itself. The earliest known Columbus Day celebration took place on Oct. 12, 1792, on the 300th anniversary of…
Laura (Layla) H. Kwong, University of California, Berkeley Do masks work? And if so, should you reach for an N95, a surgical mask, a cloth mask or a gaiter? Over the past year and a half, researchers have produced a lot of laboratory, model-based and observational evidence on the effectiveness of masks. For many…
If an alliance of neoliberal billionaires & authoritarian Republican politicians succeed at blocking Biden’s progressive reforms or drag us into a recession – we are truly screwed By Thom Hartmann From his Daily Rant (by permission of the author) Mitch McConnell’s use of the debt ceiling, and two Democratic senators taking big bucks from…