[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription Let’s play the Israel-Palestine impossibility game. It’s timely because the two-state peace for which I have long argued is now widely deemed unattainable. The answer, as one of the most thoughtful observers of the conflict, Peter Beinart, has recently argued, must be one state...
Trump Is Setting Us up for an Election Day Nightmare
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription We should not be shocked by President Trump’s admission, in an interview this week with Chris Wallace, that he might not accept the results of the November election. After all, he said that before the 2016 election as well. Yet the situation now is far...
Schools Beat Earlier Plagues with Outdoor Classes. We Should, Too.
[aggregation-styles] New York Times In the early years of the 20th century, tuberculosis ravaged American cities, taking a particular and often fatal toll on the poor and the young. In 1907, two Rhode Island doctors, Mary Packard and Ellen Stone, had an idea for mitigating transmission among children. Following education...
The Iraq War Is Finally Getting Some Proper Scrutiny – From a TV Program
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian Once Upon a Time in Iraq is the most searing anti-war documentary I have seen. In five parts on Mondays on BBC2, it is not bangs, screams and tears. The searing is not visceral. It is intellectual. In among the footage of the 2003 war, we hear...
Biden Finds a Better Way to Do ‘America First’
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription With the pandemic overshadowing everything, one can sometimes forget that there is a presidential campaign going on. That helps to explain why the media paid so little attention, over the past two weeks, when Joe Biden released his plans to fight climate change and revive...
Sabotage, Sanctions and the Bullying of Iran Is Bound to Backfire on the West
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian It now seems fairly certain that Israel or its agents blew up Iran’s main nuclear fuel enrichment facility at Natanz on 2 July. A “Middle Eastern intelligence official” who told two American newspapers that Israel was behind the explosion was identified in Israeli media reports last week...
Pathologist Found Blood Clots in ‘Almost Every Organ’ During Autopsies on Covid-19 Patients
[aggregation-styles] CNN Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says. Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke...
Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue Not Apologizing for Trump Support Amid Boycott
[aggregation-styles] Fox Business The CEO of Goya Foods is not apologizing for supporting President Trump in a move that's sparked outrage among politicians and thought leaders calling for Americans to boycott its products. Robert Unanue, the head of the New Jersey-based company that claims to be the largest Hispanic-owned food...
Police Raid House of Gun-Toting St. Louis Couple and Confiscate the AR-15 Brandished During Confrontation with Black Lives Matter Protesters
[aggregation-styles] Daily Mail Police executed a search warrant and seized the rifle brandished by a St. Louis man when Black Lives Matter protesters marched through his gated community. On Friday, authorities searched the home of lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who made headlines on June 28 when a video went...
NYC Black Lives Matter Marches Can Continue Despite Large-Event Ban, de Blasio Says
[aggregation-styles] New York Post Mayor Bill de Blasio is permitting Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through city streets while canceling all large events through September. Speaking on CNN Thursday night, de Blasio said the demonstrators’ calls for social justice were too important to stop after more than a...