America in Crisis: 5 Questions for Meghan Sahli-Wells on the COVID-19 Pandemic
The USC Bedrosian Center presents a new series of interviews with scholars and leaders on governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. These short interviews will touch on three main issues of governance during crisis: gaining the public’s trust, evidence-based policymaking, and good leadership. Where are the bright spots during this troubling time, and who…
America’s Aversion to Facts Didn’t Begin With Donald Trump
Retracing the roots of political falsehood.
An Easier Way to Get to Universal Health Care by Fran Korten — YES! Magazine
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
Analysis | Can We Undo Trump’s Environmental Damage?
American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.
Analysis | How Youth Have Changed the Climate Movement
Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands.
Analysis | Young Activists Aren’t Waiting For Anyone
Older generations have generally favored “nowism,” which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it.
Ancient Organics Discovered on Mars
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics – molecules containing carbon. Organics are the building blocks of all life on Earth, though they can also come from non-living sources.
Anniversary of world’s third most serious nuclear accident
To most, a major nuclear accident means Chernobyl or Fukushima. But the world’s third most deadly nuclear disaster happened 60 years ago, on September 29, 1957, at the Mayak plutonium production facility, in a closed Soviet city.
Antarctica’s Sleeping Ice Giant Could Wake Soon
The massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet looks stable from above—but it’s a dangerously different story below
AP fact check: Trump is living in an alternate reality
There you go. It’s not that the man tends to lie: it’s that the man tends to lie about everything, in every speech. He is incapable of either comprehending or conveying basic facts, and is unable to process explanations given to him about why his favorite claims are wrong.
