Breaking News: I'm sitting at my iMac, and Wolf Blitzer announces that James Comey, Director of the FBI has been fired by Trump, the Authoritarian. The last time something like this happened was in 1973, when Richard Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The...
Roger is a long time friend of mine. We were colleagues at distant universities from 1992 on, and have remained in touch via email. Roger was a prolific writer in the field of science education, and wrote a ground breaking book, Fallout! about an Australian...
The new Congress assembled today in DC, and the Republicans already showed their devious hand meeting in secret to dump the Office of Congressional Ethics. But if you think about it, their meeting could be construed as unethical, and I don't know how they can...
There now is clear evidence agreed to by the NSA, CIA and the FBI that Russia*, with directives directly from President Putin, waged a cybercrime by interfering with the US Presidential election. The DNC and the RNC were hacked and millions of documents stolen and...
For many of us, the 2016 election was a horrific and bitter defeat. Although he was elected, he will face a powerful opposition from lots of folks. On the other hand, the election for millions of people was a triumph. In Georgia, Governor Nathan Deal's...
There is a lot of writing, reporting and protests in journals (Truthout, Mother Jones, The Nation), by bloggers, and by brave activists in cities across the country mad as hell about the outcome on Tuesday. Cathy O'Neil, a mathematician and blogger at Mathbabe, wrote...
