Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality New York Times — By Max Bearak — Oct. 26, 2022 (Excerpts) With an annual summit next month, the United Nations assessed progress on countries’ past emissions commitments. Severe disruption would be hard to avoid on the current trajectory. – – – … Continue reading Climate: Looking for Good News. Not Finding Much.
[NOTE: Overall, the Feds are doing a good, even remarkable job pursuing and prosecuting Jan. 6 Capitol insurgents. But there are enough exceptions, notably in the FBI, that the fact needs to be reported on & assertively followed up. This report by NBC News is a needed example. To those who remember the civil rights … Continue reading The Story I Missed: Many FBI Agents Favored the Capitol Invaders on Jan. 6
NOTE: It took me awhile to realize it, but my joining the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama in 1965 was like walking into a theater showing an action movie/thriller just in time for the climactic car chase and shootout: high excitement and historic triumph for the good guys. Within six months, it seemed to … Continue reading Quote of the Day: America’s Fatefully Conjoined Twins — Democracy & Autocracy
The Guardian: ‘He joined the enemy’: a Ukraine soldier on fighting his father on Russian side Artur is in touch by text with his father, Oleg, a colonel in pro-Moscow forces, and is trying hard not to let hate consume him Pjotr Sauer Fri 14 Oct 2022 In the early hours of 24 February, when … Continue reading War Is Still Hell: Father vs. Son In Ukraine
I did a great deal of reporting over the last year and a half on the turmoil in the white evangelical church in America. And . . . I can’t underscore this one enough, because I’ve spent a lot of time talking with leading religious figures, scholars, academics, people who know this world inside … Continue reading Quote of The Week: Guns & “Religious Fervor”