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America’s opinion superiority complex

Has everyone gone crazy, or is it just me? Over the last several years, it’s become nearly impossible to discuss political issues without it spiraling into an argument or an uncomfortable silence that seems to linger long after the fact. In 2020, the Pew Research Center released a study ...

The sites of death: New ones are being minted every day

ERETRIA, Greece — The sites of horror — the places where mass murder happened — are seared into my memory. Holocaust sites like the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz, or Kigali, where the Hutus butchered the Tutus, or the Falls Road in Belfast, where many died over the decades of strife. A ...

HOLY COW! HISTORY: 1948, political polling’s epic fail

It’s been a bungee jump of a year in American politics. Last spring, the GOP seemed poised to ride a Red Tsunami in the coming midterm elections. Democrats rallied over the summer and appeared to have regained momentum. This fall, however, there was a Republican resurgence with the prevailing ...

Like Soviets and Russians before, China is a hollow threat

Much ink has been spilled analyzing Communist China’s National Party Congress in which dictator Xi Jinping unsurprisingly awarded himself an unprecedented (in recent times) third five-year term. Thus, not since the communist regime’s founder, Mao Zedong, had a Chinese leader amassed so much ...

Cure sickle cell disease by 2030?

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, in remarks last month at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference, presented an audacious goal: to cure sickle cell disease by 2030. This was an enthusiastically welcomed statement, given that, for ...