Reading Time: 2 minutes Revealed: Monsanto Predicted Crop System Would Damage US Farms (Reader Pat) The author writes, “The US
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Reagan-Era Medicare Changes Leave US Vulnerable to COVID-19, Experts Say
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the 1980s, US hospitals began to transform from institutions providing comprehensive care, no matter how
Coronavirus and the 2020 Election — an Update
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Working From Home? Here Are Tech Tips You Need to Know
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicagoans Readying for Coronavirus Rent Strike (Chris) From the Chicago Tribune: “From Andersonville to Beverly, from
Cue the Soup Kitchens
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Pandemic’s Heartless Bosses Stiff Heroic Workers
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Stuck At Home? Enter the Woods!
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re stuck at home hiding from the coronavirus and feel as if you’re going mad,
In Extreme Heat and Drought, Trees Hardly Benefit From an Increased Carbon Dioxide Level
Reading Time: 2 minutes Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus (Reader Steve)
Why Do Pandemics Often Start With Bats?
Reading Time: 14 minutes While people across the world were celebrating the holidays with loved ones at the end of
How Apple’s New Browser Move Protects Online Privacy
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China Vaults Past US, Russia in New ‘Great Game’
Reading Time: 5 minutes TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — To many Americans, Central Asia may seem distant and insignificant. But the region
Earth’s Deepest Ice Canyon Vulnerable to Melting: Report
Reading Time: 2 minutes This Is Just the Beginning (Celia) The author writes, “People who now advocate that we ‘choose
Scientist Is Saving Corals by Breeding Them in the Lab
Reading Time: 6 minutes Just off the coast of Singapore, a group of scientists huddles together in the warm ocean
What Is It Like Trying to Get Tested for COVID-19?
Reading Time: < 1 minute As infected rates increase, the country wonders why so few people are getting tested and
Free Tech Tools Are Keeping Communities Connected During Pandemic
Reading Time: 2 minutes Colorado Abolishes the Death Penalty and Ends Prison Gerrymandering (DonkeyHotey) From the Appeal: “Colorado is the
An Opportunity Presents Itself
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seven states — Louisiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Connecticut, and Indiana — have postponed their presidential
Water Is an Underused Weapon in Climate Change Fight, UN Says
Reading Time: 2 minutes With Temperatures Rising, Can Animals Survive the Heat Stress? (Dana) From Yale Environment 360: “Extreme temperatures
Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Coronavirus Spring
Reading Time: 4 minutes LONDON — Friday, March 13, Euston Station. My wife and I help our 19-year-old daughter onto
Coronavirus Infects Conservatives With Socialism
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Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Out the Best in Some
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Need any emotional support? Feel free to give me a call or Skype with me. I’ll
Public’s Voice Needed, Even in a Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes As these words are being written, the clock is ticking on comment periods on a number
The Plan to Turn Half the World Into a Nature Reserve
Reading Time: < 1 minute Acting Counterterrorism Center Head Fired, According to Former US Officials (Russ) The author writes, “The
Socialist Distancing
Reading Time: < 1 minute The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Bernie Sanders caricature
To Track Virus, Governments Weigh Surveillance Tools That Push Privacy Limits
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’re Not Going Back to Normal (Chris) From MIT Technology Review: “As long as someone in
The Electoral College: Rubber Stamp or Kingmaker?
Reading Time: 6 minutes When the Electoral College convened following the 2016 election, Peter Chiafalo, Levi Guerra, and Esther John
Your Vote… or Your Health: Voters Go to Polls Despite Virus Fears
Reading Time: 3 minutes Voters in Florida, Arizona, and Illinois have a choice to make today that goes beyond their
The Rich Are to Blame for Climate Change, International Study Finds
Reading Time: 2 minutes Climate Change Is Already Diminishing the Colorado River (Mili) The author writes, “A warming climate already
What to Know About the Coronavirus
Reading Time: 2 minutes What to Know About the Coronavirus: Democrats in Congress have introduced emergency legislation to fund mail-in voting
Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Concerns to Trick you, Experts Warn
Reading Time: 2 minutes Federal Vaccine Development Sites Ill-Suited to Counter COVID-19 Epidemic (Reader Pat) From the Washington Post: “Nearly
The Silver Lining in the Coronavirus
Reading Time: 4 minutes OPINION One of life’s more sublime pleasures is the sight of a zealous ideologue being hoist
The Coronavirus: A Grab Bag of Lesser-Known Facts
Reading Time: 7 minutes A mesmerizing website, Worldometers.info, records numbers, in real time, on all sorts of things. Watch the
The Myth of American Exceptionalism Falls Victim to Coronavirus
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Lawsuit Fights Disenfranchisement of Native Americans
Reading Time: 3 minutes For many Native Americans living in rural areas and on reservations, having their neighbor take their
‘I Haven’t Seen My Mother for a Month’: Inside Italy’s Coronavirus Lockdown
Reading Time: 8 minutes With the suspension of the major professional sports seasons — basketball, baseball, soccer, and hockey —
COVID-19 Forces Companies Like Uber to Reckon With Workers’ Rights
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chelsea Manning Attempted Suicide in Jail on Wednesday (DonkeyHotey) The author writes, “U.S. prosecutors are attempting
How Coronavirus Could Set Back the Fight Against Climate Change
Reading Time: 2 minutes Trump Prevented DNI From Reporting on Threat of Pandemic (Reader Pat) From Time: “The final draft
Trump’s FEC Nominee Grilled Over Gerrymandering Past
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tempers flared on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Democratic lawmakers grilled President Donald Trump’s nominee to the
Joe Biden May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Reading Time: 4 minutes Whatever the significance of Joe Biden’s victory in last week’s Super Tuesday primary, it’s not good
New US Rules Would Let Patients Download Health Records to Phones
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scientists Will Soon Be Able to Monitor Air Pollution Hourly From Space (Mili) From The Verge:
Maple Farmers Fear Climate Change Will Upend New York’s Industry
Reading Time: 2 minutes AT&T Plans to Slash Jobs as Part of a Multi-Billion Cost-Cutting Effort (Mili) The author writes,
Despite Shattered FEC, One Commissioner Is Still Fighting for Clean Elections
Reading Time: 7 minutes Since the Federal Election Commission (FEC) lost its quorum, Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub has used her
Democracy Dies in Daylight — and Nobody Seems to Care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many Americans following the story of primary voters who stood in line for hours in Texas
GOP’s Dirty Tricks Pay Off on Super Tuesday
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Thirdhand Smoke: An Invisible Killer That Lingers for Years
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can you get cancer from living in a home previously occupied by a smoker? Sounds crazy,
How to Stop Political Texts From Spamming Your Phone
Reading Time: < 1 minute Women’s Unpaid Labor Is Worth $10,900,000,000,000 (Chris) The author writes, “Imagine you had a bucket
Will Economic Inequality Bring Down Our Entire System of Government?
Reading Time: 18 minutes Are politics and economics even more interdependent than we think? Our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy
COVID-19: A Few Inconvenient Truths
Reading Time: 5 minutes As of March 5, COVID-19 has spread to more than 80 countries and infected more than
Tropical Forests Losing Their Ability to Absorb Carbon, Study Finds
Reading Time: 2 minutes Live Facial Recognition Is Coming to US Police Body Cameras (Chris) The author writes, “Wolfcom, a