[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Rarely has the metaphor been more apt: Washington is fiddling while America burns. Congress and the Trump administration are barely negotiating anymore while unemployment remains at levels rarely seen since the Great Depression. Do not be fooled by the stock market’s vitality (which reflects the...
Why Is the Bullet Train Farce Still Going?
[aggregation-styles] The Orange County Register Subscription The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced this week that due to concerns related to the novel coronavirus, the public comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Burbank to Los Angeles Project Section would be extended. The rail authority is also extending...
Where Does Gov. Gavin Newsom Stand on Split Roll?
[aggregation-styles] The Orange County Register Subscription Former Gov. Jerry Brown often said that he subscribed to the “canoe theory of politics” — paddle a little to the left, a little to the right and then glide down the middle. He deployed that strategy through many of the crises he had...
As Dems Decried National Park Openings, Cox is Accused of Pushing to Front of Yosemite’s Line
[aggregation-styles] Washington Examiner Worried about loose rules amid a surge in the coronavirus crisis, Democrats have urged the National Park Service to stop or slow the reopening of facilities, citing concerns about the safety of employees, visitors, and neighboring communities. That is, except one: California Rep. TJ Cox, whose Fresno...
The Less Impossible Israeli-Palestinian Peace
[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...
