Kennedy’s bias against social distancing, masking, and vaccination makes him the worst person to be directing the Department of Health and Human Services at a time when we are facing a growing measles epidemic and the spread of bird flu.
For the life of me, I am unable to find a single justification for the Trump administration’s war on science, on rationality, and their refusal to accept the continuing need to expand opportunity to educate, train, and expand our pool of doctors and nurses and medical researchers.
I suspect Donald Trump’s arrogance and greed—combined with the slavish fear of almost every Republican politician unwilling to oppose him—will lead them all headlong into a predictable quagmire and easily avoidable disaster.
Even if our president doesn’t, many Americans respect and admire the brave people of Ukraine because each day the Ukrainians offer us a living example of what was required of our Founders.
In multiple Berkshire Edge interviews, school district officials and advocates for the project tell the story of recovering from defeat and winning against the odds.
This Christmas, I have a lasagna ready for the oven and some thoughts about how we are doing when it comes to peace on Earth and good will to men. Above all, I wonder: Who are we?
There seems to be an unfortunate connection between the over-heated, rhetorical claims of Attorney General Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan and their lack of willingness to play by the accepted rules of legal procedure, to actially prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt.
Until I started to go back and excavate this bit of recent history, I had no real idea of how unrelenting the attack on Comey was. And I thank Shakespeare for helping me to realize how deeply hate and resentment had penetrated Donald Trump’s being.
I cannot think of anyone, with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton and a rabid MAGA minority, who would choose to waste valuable time and money going after a distinguished former FBI director rather than serial killers, school shooters, and multi-million- and multi-billion-dollar scam artists.
This is a story about tyranny, and about how those in power end up having to rely on deception and violence to maintain and extend that power, to protect that privilege.
