The latest flashpoint in the ongoing cultural wars over how and what public school students should learn is the concept of critical race theory (CRT). Critical race theory is a way of looking at our history of racism with the goal of restructuring imbedded discrimination. It is an academic ...
President Biden ran into some trouble a couple of weeks ago when he said in a “60 Minutes” interview that COVID-19 is “over.” The immediate reaction was that Biden had committed a gaffe and it could jeopardize efforts by his administration to round up further funding to combat the ...
We’ve heard a lot about crime this campaign season, and it remains a perennial issue. Overall crime rates are, in fact, higher in the United States than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, but still well below rates in the 1980s and 1990s. A recent article on The Conversation website ...
Dr. Wayne London, a Harvard trained medical doctor, had visited town for his 50th high school class reunion. The next day we received a call from one of his classmates suggesting that he be invited to visit Chan Soon-Shiong/Windber Medical Center. As his classmate explained, he had some very ...
Hurrah! We’re going back to the good, old days of brown paper bags!In all the discussions about the destruction that plastics cause to the environment and animals (one of my most fervent concerns), why is there never any mention of the “elephant in the room,” namely, the careless and lazy ...
With the advent of the internet decades ago and the flourishing of social media, conspiracy theories on a multitude of topics have captivated the eyes and ears of many people. Diligent efforts of comprehensive examination have routinely debunked most of the theories as baseless, cracked-pot ...
