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Dangerous Lies Fuel a New Kind of Butterfly Effect
In the United States, the best place to see butterflies is also one of the places where President Donald Trump tried to build his border wall: the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This part of Texas is also one of the most economically disadvantaged places in the country. Because of this confluence of the…
Dangerous Flu Comeback Expected atop COVID This Winter
A feared “twindemic” of influenza and COVID never came to pass last year, but the outlook for such a confluence this winter is resurfacing similar concerns among epidemiologists and other infectious disease experts. Flu cases started to tick up in October and November, and those months saw an outbreak at the University of Michigan at…
The Senate’s Dangerous Inability to Protect Democracy
For nearly thirty years, Angus King has ridden centrism to power. A former two-term governor of Maine and now a two-term U.S. senator, King has used a combination of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to win votes. Since being elected governor as an independent, in 1994, he has simultaneously supported gay rights and vetoed minimum-wage…
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The Dangerous Scapegoating of the ‘Unvaccinated’ Reaches Ridiculous New Levels
Every terrible president needs a scapegoat for the results of their awful policies, and Joe Biden thinks he’s found his — the unvaccinated. For months now, Biden has spoken of those who haven’t gotten the COVID vaccine as not only second-class citizens but also as some kind of immoral scum worthy of rebuke and scorn.…
The Debt Ceiling Is Dangerous. Here’s Why It Probably Isn’t Going Anywhere.
All-out partisan conflict has jammed the gears in the U.S. Senate in recent years, causing a virtual standstill. We’ve seen the Republican Party block a presidential nominee to the Supreme Court without a hearing or vote. We’ve seen both parties increasingly use the filibuster when they’re in the minority to impede the opposition from passing…