Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu does not live in the day after. He lives today. And he figures out tomorrow tomorrow.

Ezra Klein

"Benjamin Netanyahu does not live in the day after. He lives today. And he figures out tomorrow tomorrow": 
said Ezra Klein, in his Opinion column "How Biden’s Middle East Policy Fell Apart" (The Ezra Klein Show) published in The New York Times of today.

"If there is anything at all that onlookers agree on about Benjamin Netanyahu, it is that he does not live in the day after. He lives today. And he figures out tomorrow tomorrow. And Netanyahu’s days have gotten better. He has gone from reviled to seeing his Likud party leading in polls. His political obituary has been unwritten." 

Read the full episode here.

Friday, September 20, 2024

"Regardless of your views on taxes or Ukraine or the deficit, a candidate who rejects established science and seeks to corrupt truth (either through unqualified flunkies in government or propaganda) disqualifies himself from the presidency"

"Regardless of your views on taxes or Ukraine or the deficit, a candidate who rejects established science and seeks to corrupt truth (either through unqualified flunkies in government or propaganda) disqualifies himself from the presidency": Said Scientific American in it's endorsement of Kamala Harris, arguing that Trump’s attack on scientific fact is singularly dangerous.

Scientific American urged readers to "Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment." It's a senseless, shortsighted move that will inflame America's disdain for science. The upside is that it could incentivize needed reforms in our ideologically slanted academic and public health institutions.

"Democrats rightly point out that democracy is on the ballot in an election in which Republican nominee Donald Trump threatens to be a “dictator” for a day and claims he has the power to suspend the Constitution." 

The prestigious magazine Scientific American argued persuasively that reality and science are on the ballot, too.

Read the full endorsement here.