Jim B3 days agoEven liberals balk at where gender wars are headedNew York Post - Mary HarringtonThe trans-teen social contagion, and its conflict with parents’ rights, is now so well-established even the prestige progressive press has been …
Jim BJan 24Davos 2023 Showed Us a Ruling Class Incapable of Resolving Global Crisestruthout.org - William I. RobinsonThe transnational corporate and political elite were back in Davos, Switzerland, from January 16-20 for their annual conclave amid the most severe …
Jim BJan 23Look at how the 1% are doing right now, and tell me the system isn’t riggedverified_publisherThe Guardian - Nesrine MalikYou may have forgotten by now, but there was a brief moment during the pandemic when hopes were raised for a new “roaring 20s”. The Yale sociology professor Nicholas Christakis predicted that as in the 1920s, after the 1918 Spanish flu, society would embrace indulgence, with a rise in “sexual …
Jim BThese are civil society's priorities for a world in crisisverified_publisherWorld Economic Forum - David Sangokoya, Louise ThompsonIn the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, geopolitical fracturing and now a recession, civil society leaders continue to tirelessly serve …
Jim B2023 Doomsday Clock announcement on Tuesday could warn of nuclear warverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Elizabeth WeiseEach year for the past 75 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is from the brink. The next edition will be revealed Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. EST. It's the first update to the clock since Russia's invasion of …
Jim BNew nation, new ideas: A study finds immigrants out-innovate native-born Americansverified_publisherNPR - Greg RosalskySergey Brin, co-founder Google; Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft; Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood actress who, quite incredibly, was also a pioneering inventor behind Wi-Fi and bluetooth; Elon Musk; Chien-Shiung Wu, who helped America build the first atom bomb; Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the …
