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What’s the truth about sobriety? Here’s my answer

whtnone — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:05:00 +0000

“The Shining” (book 1977, film 1980) is about a white-knuckle alcoholic’s descent into his disease and its effects on his mind, career and family. I didn’t learn this until recently. I just thought it was about how scary it is to be married to a writer.

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Democrats remain in deep denial over election defeat

whtnone — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:05:00 +0000

Many Democrats remain comically befuddled over how they lost two of the past three presidential elections to Donald Trump. As one might expect from those obsessed with gender and identity politics, they now engage in projection, chalking up the defeats to a sexist and misogynist electorate.

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‘Veganuary’ is just the beginning

whtnone — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:05:00 +0000

Have you made a New Year’s resolution yet? Here are two good ones: to be compassionate and to get healthy. You can start doing both in “Veganuary,” an annual challenge encouraging everyone to go vegan for the month of January.

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What is Trump really going to do?

whtnone — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:05:00 +0000

President-elect Donald Trump is rapidly turning out names of potential nominees for his incoming administration. Most are strong supporters not only of Trump himself, but also his agenda. It is highly likely that they will be more than happy to help the incoming president implement his wishes.

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New Year’s resolutions seem to set us up for failure. How can we course-correct?

whtnone — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:05:00 +0000

Are you a New Year’s resolution hater? Could you care any less that early Christians reflected on past sins at this time of year or that your neighbor will finally use that Peloton to work out in January? If that’s the case, you’re in good company.

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Journalists failed to ask Dr. Anthony Fauci the hard questions during the pandemic

whtnone — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

In the midst of a flurry of presidential pardons and commutations by President Joe Biden, there is talk in the White House of preemptive pardons for people who could be at risk of prosecution by the next administration.

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The true Trump threat

whtnone — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Many Americans fear what Donald Trump will do after assuming the presidency in January — and understandably so. Trump’s pathological self-absorption has no place in American government, let alone at its very top.

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Five signs our country isn’t lost

whtnone — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

On the one hand, there’s no sugarcoating how progressives feel at the close of 2024: rough.

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Should AI be used to resurrect extinct species like the Neanderthal?

whtnone — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

As science continues its evolution, discoveries and technologies can act like a master key that opens doors that lead to novel advancements. Artificial intelligence is one such key, making innovations possible by solving complex problems, automating tasks and enabling research that would have been impossible, or very time-consuming, without it.

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The top five moments of 2024

whtnone — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

For those on the right side of the political aisle, 2024 was a mixed bag. On the one hand, we had to trudge through the final year of Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency while fighting tooth and nail to prevent the administration from inflicting further economic carnage.

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Alaska is a climate victim and a perpetrator. The next four years will only make matters worse

whtnone — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick summer berries on a trail through the tundra outside their river town in southwest Alaska, but now that part of the tundra is too dangerous to traverse since water-filled sinkholes have formed with surface slicks of volatile methane.

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The real cost of the anti-college narrative for Black and brown students

whtnone — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Across the country, a growing anti-college sentiment has been gaining momentum, positioning itself as an inclusive alternative to traditional views of success. The movement has led more high schools to promote alternative career paths and even revise their missions to exclude any mention of college.

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How US schoolchildren can stop trailing their international peers

whtnone — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

U.S. educators better hope Santa doesn’t check test results. New results from an international comparison of K-12 students showed they continue to fall behind their peers around the world. If American students are to bounce back, policymakers nationwide need to ignore the calls for lower—yes, lower—standards coming from some sectors and reject claims that more spending in education is the answer.

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Rickey Henderson was about so much more than the stolen bases

whtnone — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

When Kevin Towers was the San Diego Padres’ general manager, he received a voicemail delivered in a high-pitched, high-energy voice then familiar to most baseball people: “KT! It’s Rickey! Calling about Rickey! Rickey wants to play baseball!” Rickey Henderson, in 2001, became a Padre again.

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Trump lawsuits, threats a clear and wrongheaded effort to bully the press

whtnone — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

It’s wrong for the incoming president to start suing newspapers and it’s a transparent effort to bully the press, but there Donald Trump stood Monday, proclaiming that “we have to straighten out the press. Our press is very corrupt. Almost as corrupt as our elections.”

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Here’s what is so unusual about the Wisconsin school shooting — and what isn’t

whtnone — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

The Dec. 16 shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, has shocked the nation, not only for its horror but for its unique profile. This time, a teenage girl opened fire inside her school, killing a teacher, another student, and apparently herself, and injuring six others. Although female school shooters are exceedingly rare, the patterns that lead to such tragedies are painfully familiar.

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FAA needs a leader just like the one it’s losing

whtnone — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

The aerospace industry was relieved last year when the Federal Aviation Administration, the main regulator for all things that fly, finally got an administrator after an 18-month vacancy.

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How to approach Trump’s second presidency

whtnone — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

The resistance to Donald Trump has failed. He has now shaped American politics for nearly a decade, with four more years — at least — to go. A hard truth his opponents must accept: Trump is the most dominant American politician since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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With pardon promise, Trump tries to rewrite Jan. 6 history but he cannot erase it

whtnone — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Just days after a former Proud Boy from Miami was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to pardon people involved in the attack meant to overturn his 2020 defeat.

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The trouble began when #MeToo became #ChurchToo

New York Times — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

When did we know that the #MeToo moment was truly over?

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How Democrats could use the lame duck to save medication abortions

whtnone — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Before Democrats lose the White House and the Senate, they should push through legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, which could be used to prevent legal medically induced abortions everywhere in the United States. Given the success of ballot initiatives that protect the right to abortion in even conservative states in last month’s election, the politics could be right to repeal that 1873 law.

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‘It’s 5 o’clock somewhere’ is no joke if you’ve seen alcohol’s toll

whtnone — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

It’s been a hard, hard 18 months. Mom got sick and died. The election was crazy. Job security diminished.

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No way on Pete Hegseth — Trump’s Defense Department nominee is not fit

whtnone — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, already under fire from revelations about his scant qualifications, is facing the heat of an in-depth New Yorker magazine piece detailing his drunken mismanagement of the organizations Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.

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No one should go hungry in America

New York Times — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

It is an astonishingly large number: 5.3 billion. That’s how many meals were distributed by the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, Feeding America, in 2023 alone. In a country of more than 330 million people, it is evidence of how widespread and persistent food insecurity remains in the United States.

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How do you like that filibuster now?

New York Times — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

As Republicans prepare to take control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency, Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat turned independent, has a question for his former Democratic teammates: “How do you like that filibuster now?”

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RFK Jr. was just the start of Trump’s bad public health picks

whtnone — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has given way to a slate of nominees for key health agencies that portend worrisome changes in how the US approaches public health.

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‘I was a stranger and you invited me in’

New York Times — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:05:00 +0000

I won’t forget the first time I volunteered for a Nashville, Tennessee, homeless ministry called Room in the Inn. It was decades ago, in 1990, on a cold night in the dead of winter. I drove to my church, walked into the kitchen and immediately started cooking more food than I’d ever made in my life. We were making lasagna for roughly 20 men who were due to arrive at the church at any moment.

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Gift ideas that push back the darkness

New York Times — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Forget the necktie that will sit in Dad’s closet or the perfume that your sister Sue will soon regift, for I have some better ideas.

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Why I voted third party and I’m not sorry

whtnone — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

I’m a progressive Californian, a Black man, and I did not vote for Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris this year or Donald Trump. I voted for Claudia De La Cruz, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for president.

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Musk hopes to make budget cutting cool

whtnone — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

If Donald Trump doesn’t kill Elon Musk before Musk offs Vivek Ramaswamy, together the three best bros have a chance to achieve something every administration promises, but none has delivered: Rid the federal budget of waste, fraud and inefficiency.

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Rubio as secretary of state — Will he be able to rein in Trump’s isolationist impulses?

whtnone — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of state on Wednesday will elevate the Miami native and son of Cuban exiles to the post of America’s chief diplomat.

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Donald Trump is already starting to fail

New York Times — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

That was quick.

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Waltz’s foreign policy dance card — Avoid dangerous isolationism

whtnone — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

The week after he won the White House, Donald Trump announced his national security advisor. It was 2016 and the pick was Mike Flynn, a man with an oddly pro-Russian worldview who only would last three weeks in the role, having lied to the vice president about talking to the Russians. Flynn was also under investigation for being an unregistered foreign agent. Later convicted of crimes, Flynn was ultimately pardoned by Trump.

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Progressives now learn to love the Senate filibuster

whtnone — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

News outlets called the last outstanding U.S. Senate race this week for Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona. That gives Republicans a 53-47 edge in the chamber after picking up four seats.

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Tuesday’s election showed the democratic system works

whtnone — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Whether Wednesday morning brought jubilation or despair, American voters should agree that the nation’s electoral system worked. President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping victory came remarkably smoothly on Election Day. While there was some isolated trouble at polling places across the country, voting to a vast degree was orderly, safe and convenient, which should underscore public confidence in the result.

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Why grade inflation is spreading from high school to college — and how it hurts learning

whtnone — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to enrich our lives and make us better citizens and independent thinkers.

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Understanding ‘logos’ — The power of words

whtnone — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

As the dust settles on another contentious election cycle, Americans are left to ponder the lasting impact of the countless speeches delivered by those vying for our votes. These orations, often derided as mere “campaign rhetoric,” are, in fact, far more profound. They represent a timeless exercise of the ancient concept of “logos” — the art of using words to paint vivid pictures, conjure entire worlds and shape the very course of our nation.

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Americans voted for Trump. Here’s what they chose — and the hope for all those who didn’t

whtnone — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. What’s clearer and more important at this moment is what millions of our fellow citizens did by putting Donald Trump back in the White House.

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Biowearables are the future of personalized health care

whtnone — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

People are hungry for information about their bodies. Nearly one-third of Americans don smartwatches and other wearable technology to measure things such as step counts, calories burned and heart rate, according to research published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.

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When every election is the ‘most important election of our lives’

whtnone — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Another election cycle, another round of hysteria. Let me guess: This is the “most important election of our lives.”

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Mainstream media has hit rock bottom in 2024 election

whtnone — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

The 2024 election marks the collapse of the mainstream media as we know it.

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Poor Americans disproportionately crushed by Biden-Harris inflation

whtnone — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

All Americans are facing rising prices under the Biden-Harris administration, despite its claim that it’s “fighting to lower costs,” but the burden of soaring costs falls disproportionately on low-income families.

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San Francisco uses the ocean as its toilet and wants to flush a key environmental law

whtnone — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:05:00 +0000

San Francisco has long used the Pacific Ocean as its toilet. In heavy rains, the city on the hill cannot store all the storm runoff and sewage that flows toward an oceanside treatment plant in a single old pipe, so some heads out to sea. Now, in a case with national implications, San Francisco is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow it to pollute the ocean on occasion without violating the federal Clean Water Act.

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Democrats strategize to block Trump from taking Oval Office

whtnone — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Hypocritical Democrats are quietly girding and strategizing for a post-election court fight to block Donald Trump from taking office and refusing to fully commit to certifying the election in the event of a Republican win.

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4 lessons from 9 years of being ‘Never Trump’

New York Times — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

I’ve been wrong about many things, but here are two of the bigger whiffs of my professional life.

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We have extreme inequality in America, and it’s getting worse

whtnone — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Bloomberg recently reported that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is now worth over $200 billion. He’s not alone. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and LVMH founder Bernard Arnault are also worth north of $200 billion.

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What Lincoln can tell us about MAGA

New York Times — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Something is clearly happening with Donald Trump. Even a year ago, I don’t think he would have begun a rally with 12 minutes of rambling remarks about late golfer Arnold Palmer, concluding with a discussion of the size of Palmer’s penis.

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Vegan meals should be standard in hospitals — Here’s why

whtnone — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Vegan food is medicine. But during a recent hospital stay, I saw an absurd number of animal-derived foods on the menu: greasy cheese, cholesterol-laden meat, fatty dairy milk. It made about as much sense as a mechanic pouring tallow into an engine.

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Hey, big spenders — Trump’s plans bust the federal budget

whtnone — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

The Republican Party is the party of fiscal responsibility? It’s been a laughable idea ever since presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have pushed massive, unpaid-for, deficit-ballooning tax cuts skewed to deliver the biggest benefits to the wealthiest among us.

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Ticking down — The states take aim at TikTok

whtnone — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:05:00 +0000

Last week, 14 state attorneys general, including New York AG Tish James, sued the social media platform TikTok for allegedly damaging young users’ mental health and collecting information about them with its service in violation of state and federal laws.

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