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Lab can’t leak what it never had
A “lab accident" is not a conspiracy. However, in 2023, all versions of the lab leak theory presuppose a conspiracy, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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The Republican’s danse macabre
Yes, even if they suffer, too. It’s frivolous and terrifying.
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America is more prepared for terrorism than anti-vaxxers
First it was covid vaccines. Now it’s everything else.
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The Republicans could help the president with inflation, but that would require helping him
Now the Fed is poised to trigger a recession.
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We're in the middle of another covid surge. Yet Congress appears to have moved on
Another health, economic and political disaster in the making.
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The pandemic isn’t over till it’s over for everyone
On Dr. Anthony Fauci’s flub.
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What do 1,000,000 dead Americans tell us?
The United States are not one.
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'Mobthink' spreads like the covid
What Eugene Ionesco’s "Rhinoceros" tells is about political identity.
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The break up of Big Business and the GOP isn’t happening. It already happened. Will the Democrats seize the opportunity?
The Republican Party's entrenchment of “a heteronormative view of a Eurocentric patriarchal America” is bad for business.
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Calvin, covid and preserving your place in the racial hierarchy by getting yourself killed
The theologian and autocrat said “perversity in us never ceases, but constantly produces new fruits." Lord, is that ever on the money.
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America has surrendered to Fox
It doesn’t have to be this way.
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The pandemic, not public spending, is driving inflation
Supply chain issues are global. So are rising prices.