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Lately, School Closures Have Been Called a “National Crisis.” They Were Not. Original
Science The headlines were alarming. “Students Lost One-Third of a School Year to Pandemic,” proclaimed the New York Times, adding that “school closures set student progress in math and reading back by two decades.” “Online school put US kids behind,” explained the Associated Press.
Sympathy for the Devil: The Making of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
For decades, he was a superstar environmental lawyer who demanded that Americans should accept and act on the scientific consensus that climate change is real. He specialized in cases in which corporations had hidden the environmental or health costs of their products. His legal work against corporations that dump toxic chemicals in water, waste dumps, and food saved thousands of people from disabling diseases or death.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Used to Be a Fearsome Advocate for the Truth. What Happened?
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images. For decades, he was a superstar environmental lawyer who demanded that Americans should accept and act on the scientific consensus that climate change is real. He specialized in cases in which corporations had hidden the environmental or health costs of their products. His legal work against corporations that dump toxic chemicals in water, waste dumps, and food saved thousands of people from disabling diseases or death.
The Lab-Leak Theory Still Can’t Be Disproved. Should We Care?
Putin Aide Issues Warning: 'Wrath of God' Awaits US If It Pursues Prosecution Of Russia In War Court A top Russian diplomat warned the U.S. in July 2022 against proceeding with efforts to bring the country before an international war court. 'Wrath Of God:' Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia's Security Council, said the U.S. may have to face the "wrath of God" if it helps set up an international tribunal to investigate Russia's action in Ukraine, the Associated Press reported.
How the Lab-Leak Theory Went From Fringe to Mainstream—and Why It’s a Warning
Science The idea has been part of the public discourse for three years. It isn’t really about preventing future pandemics. On Jan. 30,2020, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton addressed military leaders at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing and presented a startling idea. At that time, the novel coronavirus was spreading around China and had killed hundreds of people, though it had not yet been identified in the U.S. Chinese officials said the virus had originated at a seafood market in Wuhan.
The Medical-Industrial Complex | Barbara Ehrenreich
Reviewed: Men, Money and Medicine by Eli Ginzberg and Miriam Ostow Columbia, 291 pp., $8.50 I The American crisis over health has finally taken a place alongside the urban crisis, the ecological crisis, and the “youth crisis” as the subject for solemn Presidential announcements, TV documentaries, and special features of magazines ranging from Fortune to Redbook.
How decades of greed and bad choices left us vulnerable to a pandemic
Before you crack open John Ehrenreich's new book, " The Making of a Pandemic: Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19," both the rather bland title and the lengthy compilation of footnotes may give you the impression that you are about to read a dry academic text. Instead, the book turns out to be an examination, indeed an indictment, of the last few decades of American politics, business and society.
The Covid Lab-Leak Debate Is Destructive
Photo credit: Mongkolchon Akesin / Shutterstock.com _____ Was the coronavirus transmitted from wild animals to humans, or was it accidentally leaked from a lab? Whatever the answer, the spirited debate over the origins of the disease is a dangerous distraction from the serious discussion we need to have: how to prevent repeats of the Covid-19 pandemic. For most of the last year, the lab-leak hypothesis often seemed little more than yet another attack on China by the Trump administration.
The Future of a Delusion
Photo credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Noon on January 20 was a “ding-dong the witch is dead” moment for many. Defeated in the election, discredited by the invasion of the Capitol, and impeached for a second time, Donald Trump disappeared into his Mar-a-Lago mansion. His hold on the Republican Party and the nation seemed over. But though we took a short step back from the abyss, the abyss is still there.
Conspiracy theories went wild in 2020. Psychology can tell us why.
Science They’re not stupid. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images, aetb/iStock/Getty Images Plus, and miriam-doerr/iStock/Getty Images Plus. 2020 was a banner year for conspiracy theories. First there was the proliferation of QAnon, whose followers insisted that Donald Trump was all that stood between us and a “deep state” cabal that was running a global sex trafficking ring and harvesting a chemical from children’s blood.
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longer View
In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, it’s hard to think about anything else. We stew over our own health and that of our loved ones and worry about the economic devastation faced by so many Americans. We are troubled by the disproportionate harm to people who are poor, black, and Latino, and by the horrors facing those in prisons, detention centers, and nursing homes. If we are in a blaming mood, we may blame the president, the Republicans, the Chinese, idiot kids, or right-wing evangelicals.
Rethinking Incarceration
At year-end, President Trump signed the “First Step” bill for reform of the federal prison system. The bipartisan bill, which passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate by overwhelming votes, pairs changes in sentencing laws with investments in in-prison education and training programs and expansion of early release credits. The bill is well named.
Why the Abortion Debate Feels Like Such a Stalemate
For most social issues that the Supreme Court decides, arguing tends to die down after a couple of years. We’ve seen this even when the initial level of disagreement was intense at the time of the decision, as it was with, say, interracial marriage and school segregation.
White Evangelicals Would Keep Supporting Trump Even Without Roe v. Wade
One of the enduring puzzles of contemporary American politics is why white evangelicals, who loudly proclaim their devotion to the teachings of the Bible, continue to support the thrice-married, six-times-bankrupted, multiple-times-unfaithful, chronically lying president, who has, at the very least, violated three of the Ten Commandments (“Thou shalt not commit adultery,” “Thou shalt not steal,” and “Thou shalt not bear false witness”) and arguably several others.
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by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker and Morten Wendelbo By disproportionately affecting young men, the virus, in combination with World War I, created a shortage of labor – filled by women.
Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Gun Rights Anyway?
Science Belief in gun rights hasn’t always been a conservative ideology. Psychology helps explain how it took off. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Thinkstock. Why has support for gun rights become a hallmark of the Republican Party? There is nothing inevitable about the combination of economic and foreign policy conservatism with social conservatism.
Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Gun Rights Anyway?
John Ehrenreich is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York–Old Westbury and the author of Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Politics, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest have Imperiled the American Dream. Why has support for gun rights become a hallmark of the Republican Party? There is nothing inevitable about the combination of economic and foreign policy conservatism with social conservatism.
The Rise of Third Wave Capitalism
In Third Wave Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2016), John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century gave way to corporate capitalism in the twentieth, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism." To find more books that pique our interest, visit the Utne Reader Bookshelf.
Conservatives are more susceptible to believing lies — but not because they're stupid
And then it gets really crazy. Almost 1 in 6 Trump voters, while simultaneously viewing photographs of the crowds at the 2016 inauguration of Donald Trump and at the 2012 inauguration of Barack Obama , insisted that the former were larger.
Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies.
And then it gets really crazy. Almost 1 in 6 Trump voters, while simultaneously viewing photographs of the crowds at the 2016 inauguration of Donald Trump and at the 2012 inauguration of Barack Obama , insisted that the former were larger.
Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies.
Science An interplay between how all humans think and how conservatives tend to act might actually explain a lot about our current moment. Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. Photos by FoxNews and FoxNews.com. Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts.
7 reasons why Donald Trump was no surprise - Hillary either masters them, or she might lose
In the wake of Donald Trump’s clinching of the Republican nomination, pundits are falling all over themselves to explain their failure to predict his success. For most, the mea culpas have a hollow quality. “Everyone was wrong,” says the New Yorker’s David Remnick. “This has really been a huge case of humble pie to everyone in my business, myself included,” adds Fox News’ Chris Wallace. But if everyone made a mistake, no one can really be blamed for their own particular failure.
3 simplistic conservative beliefs that are radically slowing American progress
The following is an excerpt from the new book Third Wave Capitalism by John Ehrenreich (Cornell University Press, 2016): For there to be any possibility of a progressive resurgence, we have to confront the conservative narrative and address the question of why so many Americans buy in to it. George W. Bush famously told then-Senator Joseph Biden, “I don’t do nuance.” The right has been very successful at reducing complex issues to simple slogans.
3 Simplistic Conservative Beliefs That Completely Slow All Progress
The following is an excerpt from the new book Third Wave Capitalism by John Ehrenreich (Cornell University Press, 2016): For there to be any possibility of a progressive resurgence, we have to confront the conservative narrative and address the question of why so many Americans buy in to it. George W. Bush famously told then-Senator Joseph Biden, “I don’t do nuance.” The right has been very successful at reducing complex issues to simple slogans.
The Surprising People on Both Sides of the Aisle Flirting With Prison Reform-and Then Backtracking
The Surprising People on Both Sides of the Aisle Flirting With Prison Reform—and Then Backtracking Reform of the criminal justice system has surfaced as a major issue in the presidential race. 2015 had seen the emergence of an unlikely coalition for reform, uniting conservatives and liberals, driven by widespread concern about the increase in the prison population and by street protests against the failure of prosecutors to address the targeting of blacks by police.
Death of the Yuppie Dream
Reprinted and condensed with permission from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung — New York Office. Should we mourn the fate of the Professional Managerial Class or rejoice that there is one less smug, self-styled, elite to stand in the way of a more egalitarian future? Every would-be populist in American politics purports to defend the “middle class,” although there is no agreement on what it is.
The Making of the 99%
“Class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs.” —E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class This is a joint Nation/TomDispatch article and will appear online at TomDispatch.com.
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