“U.S. Takes Hooded, Shackled Detainees to Cuba,” declared the Washington Post headline on January 11, 2002. The reporters who wrote it were on the ground at Guantánamo Bay and in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I was in Washington, at my desk in the Post newsroom, where I worked as a researcher. As...
Elon Musk Criticizes California’s Proposal to Cut Solar Energy Incentives as ‘Anti-Environment’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused California's government of pushing "anti-environment" legislation. The California Public Utilities Commission put forward a proposal last month that would slash the amount of incentives available to people who install solar energy systems on their roofs. The proposal is due to be voted on later this month. Musk...
What We Know About the Symptoms — and the Severity — of the Omicron Variant
When it was discovered, omicron alarmed scientists. With infections at all-time highs in the U.S., the clinical picture is now coming together and starting to confirm what other countries have found — a typical case of omicron not only presents slightly differently but also likely carries a lower chance...
Biden-Cheney 2024?
NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman asks if America needs a ticket of Joe Biden and Liz Cheney in 2024. Or Joe Biden and Lisa Murkowski, or Kamala Harris and Mitt Romney, or Stacey Abrams and Liz Cheney, or Amy Klobuchar and Liz Cheney? America is facing an existential moment,...
Pope Warns About Dangers of ‘Cancel Culture’
The Pope has criticized “cancel culture”, claiming it suffocates freedom of expression, rewrites the past and eliminates “all sense of identity”. In a strongly worded speech Monday to diplomats gathered at the Vatican, the Pope said “a kind of one-track thinking is taking shape, one constrained to deny history or,...
Microphone Catches Fauci Describing GOP Senator as ‘a Moron’
White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci was caught on a hot mic Tuesday calling Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) "a moron" during his testimony before the Senate Health Committee on the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The tense exchange came as Marshall questioned Fauci about disclosing more of his personal finances to Congress. Marshall cited...
Fauci Fires Back at Rand Paul, Accusing Him of Using Attacks for ‘Political Gain’
Dr. Anthony Fauci accused Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday of raising campaign funds off false attacks on him that have encouraged threats on Fauci’s life. The attacks on Fauci, who is President Biden’s chief medical adviser on the coronavirus and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Treasury Begins Distribution of Quarter Featuring Poet, Activist Maya Angelou
The U.S. Mint has begun rolling out quarters which feature writer, poet and activist Maya Angelou, the first Black woman to appear on the coin. The new coin is part of the American Women Quarters program. Additional quarters will feature astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space;...
Getting Away With Murder Wasn’t Enough for Tony Blair
The legacy of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is even more toxic now than the day he left office - after taking his country into the Iraq War. An official investigation into Britain’s role in Iraq concluded that the case for going to war had been deliberately exaggerated...
‘It’s Been a Long Road, but It’s Been a Good Journey’: 20 of Sidney Poitier’s Best Quotes
Sydney Poitier, the first Black actor to win an Academy Award, was beloved for playing leading men who were wise souls and love interests. As he starred in many films including To Sir With Love, A Raisin In The Sun, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to...