Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. As children roam empty streets Their eyes dried of tears As the mentally challenged Find no solace, no help As single mothers Ask in vain for food Deprived of their most basic support Unjustly taken away from them As the disabled...
Let’s call it the human guessing game. There comes a point in life when we find ourselves playing it whether we want to or not. Hallelujah for a sense of humor. It gives (temporary) relief from the unrelenting unknown . . . of dying. Yeah, I said it, not abstractly or...
Thinning is essentially “gardening” the forest–selecting which trees are winners and which are losers. Photo by George Wuerthner. A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape,...
Image by Morgan Housel. The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that oversees the country’s monetary policy with the power to set interest rates, which shapes the...
Photograph Source: Isac Nóbrega/PR – CC BY 2.0 In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be imposed on Brazil—a country that has a trade surplus with the United States...
Photograph Source: hakkun – CC BY-SA 3.0 The Trump administration on June 30 released its “National Security Presidential Memorandum 5” on U.S. plans for Cuba. Criticism from Cuba’s government and international commentators welled up, as if entirely new forms of...
Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0 In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his...
The Now Time. Yes, he’s done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn’t be simpler to describe. Somehow, he’s managed to take the greatest looming threat to humanity and put it (excuse the all-too-appropriate image) on the back burner. I’m thinking, of course,...
Jim Abbott pitching. Photo: John Traub / Albuquerque Isotopes Baseball Club. I watched a great sports documentary Sunday. “Southpaw. The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott” on ESPN. I’ll sum it up first. If this film, which far transcends just sports, doesn’t get a Sports...
Thinning is essentially “gardening” the forest–selecting which trees are winners and which are losers. Photo by George Wuerthner. A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape,...
Image by Morgan Housel. The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that oversees the country’s monetary policy with the power to set interest rates, which shapes the...
Photograph Source: Isac Nóbrega/PR – CC BY 2.0 In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of international trade, President Donald Trump this week announced that 50% tariffs would be imposed on Brazil—a country that has a trade surplus with the United States...