Stephen Suzman landscape design.

12/22/2024

It always puzzles me

How so many Christians conflate Mammon and cruelty with Christian belief.

It’s a simple question with a complicated answer.

12/22/2024

Some college students and faculty members are seeking space for nuanced perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war on deeply divided campuses.

12/22/2024

12/22/2024

White washing history is never a good idea. What’s one aspect of history you wish they’d teach more thoroughly? I don’t think the school system really spent an adequate amount of time on Japanese internment camps during WWII. In the United States. I think there’s too much glossing over US atrocities, and it hasn’t done the country as a whole any favors. There can’t be growth without accountability. I’m interested in what aspects of history you’d have liked to learn more about.

12/21/2024

Investigation by Senate Democrats found that Thomas accepted gifts and travel worth more than $4.75m since 1991

12/21/2024

State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells

12/21/2024

American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying – if not surprising

12/21/2024

Yes, we live in an oligarchy

12/21/2024

US deportations under Biden surpass Trump's record
Source: BBC .S.Customs

US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term in office. More than 271,000 immigrants were deported from the US over the last fiscal year, according to a report released by the US Imm...

12/21/2024

Trump wanted $90M for inauguration while cutting $190M from cancer research: lawmaker
Source: Raw Story

The federal government narrowly averted a year-end shutdown after an 11th-hour effort in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives to cobble a bill that could pass the Democratic-run Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden. And President-elect Donald Trump narrowly succeeded in eliminating fun...

12/21/2024