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It was recently revealed that Larry Summers joked about women having lower IQs in an email to Jeffrey Epstein. I find Summers' narrow fixation on biological determinism fascinating because it's ...

I posted this essay on my site yesterday, and the response/comments have been amazingly moving to me. I’m not sure if it works as a DK diary, but I’m going to repost it and see what you think. Here goes! ~ I read this troubling, illuminating, and...

Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...

The Four Reasons Why Kelly Is Fine 1. Kelly is Not in the Military Anymore Kelly’s a civilian. The Uniform Code of Military Justice doesn’t touch him here. Once you’re out, you get your full First Amendment rights back. Simple as that. (See notes at...

The Trump administration has done a tremendous job of staffing its brutal crackdown on immigrants. But it turns out that reassigning everyone to that effort means that the Department of Homeland ...

What if every state did the Transparent Election Initiative to negate the pernicious effects of Citizens United and its political action committee grifting down by the dental floss bush. Every state, whether via legislators or ballot initiatives, has...

In a world afire in climate crisis and simultaneously hungry for food and energy, agrivoltaics—the pairing of solar panels with farming and ranching — has been hailed as a miracle solution. But this encouraging technological fix is also a political...

The Hayli Gubbi shield volcano in Ethiopia’s desolate Afar region near Eritrea unexpectedly erupted with a thunderous explosion yesterday (Nov 23) for the first time in at least 10,000 years — sending a column of ash more than 45,000 feet into the...

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� 'Punishable by DEATH': Trump calls for Democrats to be ...

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Trump might sell major weapons to Ukraine—but has questions ...