In today’s random reading, I bump into Neil Gaiman’s explanation of why the Chinese Communist Party started encouraging young people to read science fiction and…
Category: world
Last Friday, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image with the statement, “Fight for Freedom: Stand with Hong Kong.” In response, Chinese businesses…
Why don’t we hear much about ISIS anymore? Because the Obama Administration, the nerdiest White House since maybe Thomas Jefferson, waged nerd war on ISIS’s…
While American Democrats can’t figure out whether they want to impeach Donald Trump for his tyranny or not, the British Labour Party has no trouble declaring…
Why are some people so willing to insult a sixteen-year-old girl who can articulately and passionately address the United Nations in her second language about…
I base my People Power Petition drive, my blogging, and all of my political activity on the axiom that we all have equal human dignity…
I’ll be attending no Lutheran sermon this morning, but I don’t mind sharing one line from Faroe Islands Lutheran pastor and trail runner Sverri Steinholm:…
Wind power is cheaper, more reliable, and less harmful than coal-generated power. Danish MP Ida Auken shows how to package those facts in a wonderful…
Given that current food production and consumption patterns play a large role in changing the climate, what food policies ought we adopt to keep our…
Memo to Mayor Schaunaman: cutting down trees is bad for humanity. So says a new United Nations report on what we must do to fight…