covid pandemic

Lab can’t leak what it never had

By Lindsay Beyerstein / March 3, 2023 / Comments Off on 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

By John Stoehr / October 20, 2022 / Comments Off on 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

By Victoria Brownworth / September 27, 2022 / Comments Off on 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

By Noah Berlatsky / June 21, 2022 /

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

By Noah Berlatsky / June 7, 2022 / Comments Off on 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

By Rev. Daniel Schultz / May 23, 2022 / Comments Off on 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?

By John Stoehr / May 13, 2022 / Comments Off on What do 1,000,000 dead Americans tell us?

The United States are not one.

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‘Mobthink’ spreads like the covid

By John Stoehr / April 27, 2022 / Comments Off on ‘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?

By John Stoehr / April 7, 2022 /

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

By Rev. Daniel Schultz / April 6, 2022 / Comments Off on 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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