Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images and Robin Alam/USSF/Getty Images. The US Women’s National Soccer Team lost, in penalty kicks, to Sweden in the first elimination round of the final 16 teams in the 2023 Women’s Soccer World Cup hosted jointly by Australia and New Zealand. As discussed earlier on the Eastern Woodlands, the US team seemed... Read more →
Jason Aldean certainly threw some wood on the fire that feeds the American culture wars with his song Try That in a Small Town. (See complete lyrics below.) Aldean's morally pure, no-nonsense view of the small town reminds us of the Neo-Confederate portrayal of Antebellum South as moonlight and magnolias, when it was, in fact, "an Antidemocratic, Centralized State, a... Read more →
Megan Rapinoe #15 and Alex Morgan #13 of the United States during the second half of the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 Group E match between Portugal and USA at Eden Parkon August 01, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand © Carmen Mandato/USSF/Getty I am no expert at soccer, a sport I came to when our sons... Read more →
Partial preprint under Fair Use from Phys.org. MAY 13, 2023 Editors' notes Meteorologists targeted in climate misinfo surge by Roland Lloyd Parry and Benedicte Rey with Adria Laborda in Barcelona and Kate Tan in Sydney Meteorologists and their thermometers have been criticized by climate skeptics online. Once trusted faces on the news, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online... Read more →
Rudy Giuliani: Big Playa It should not be a surprise that the current iteration of the WW2 Axis Powers, with Donald Trump holding up the German end and Rudy Giuliani the Italian, is, much like the original, on its way out. Although Trump now seems hopelessly mired in several legal disasters of his own making, Rudy Giuliani appears not to... Read more →
Taken from CNN and printed under Fair Use. Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN Updated 10:06 AM ET, Thu July 8, 2021 (CNN)A new data analysis identifies clusters of unvaccinated people, most of them in the southern United States, that are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and could... Read more →
Printed under Fair Use. In today's edition: The pandemic's impact on kids isn't just about illness What's driving India's "black fungus" crisis? David Dowdy's personal Year in Review ICYMI: COVID-19 and Kids—Impacts, Uncertainties, and the Role of Vaccines The pandemic has been an incredibly disruptive event in young people’s lives. Last week, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington... Read more →
... a very primitive species ... by marc a. cirigliano As eponymous character Starman observes, "I think you are a very primitive species." And, he continues with his observation that his planet is different from earth, "The strong do not victimize the helpless." When it comes to climate change the poor around the world are helpless and they are being... Read more →
Printed with permission. Letters from an American: July 3, 2021 Heather Cox Richardson And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the... Read more →
Published from the NYT under Fair Use. By David Leonhardt Good morning. Heavily Republican areas of the U.S. have a growing Covid problem. A Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine.Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader, via Associated Press Marin vs. Missouri There was a strange Covid-19 pattern in the U.S. for much of this spring. The virus was not spreading any faster in... Read more →