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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
It’s not just vaccines — from infancy to adolescence, Republicans are waging war on children’s health
July 3, 2026
In the old days, before accepted medical protocols came under partisan assault, infants typically received a vitamin K shot to enhance blood-clotting capability and a few drops of an antibiotic to stave off eye infections before leaving the hospital, followed by a thorough round of vaccines against life-threatening diseases.
Americans assumed that “whatever a family could afford, the country had already decided this child was worth protecting,” Robert B. Shpiner, a critical care expert at UCLA medical school, wrote recently. “I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government.”
... full articleAt the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Adiós a Luka Modric, el pequeño caballero del fútbol croata que rara vez dio un pase equivocado
July 2, 2026
Cuando la Yugoslavia que había construido el mariscal Tito empezaba a mostrar las grietas que terminarían en su desintegración, nacía Luka Modrić, en Zadar. Fue el 9 de septiembre de 1985. En esos tiempos, la Quinta del Buitre ganaba cinco títulos de Liga al hilo y el Real Madrid miraba a todos por encima del hombro. Ese mismo año, Paolo Rossi llegaba al Milan, donde ya estaban Franco Baresi y Mauro Tassotti, entre otros próceres rossoneri.
... full articleOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Trump is avoiding the World Cup because it’s packed with good things he doesn’t like
July 2, 2026
At 4.38pm on 28 June Donald Trump dropped a Truth. Nothing unusual in that. Trump’s Truth Social feed is relentless and ever-giving.
That same afternoon he also Truthed at 3.58pm, 3.59pm, and twice at 7.42pm, all in the same instantly recognisable, weirdly cartoonish tone, as if a giant maize-based salted snack from a jaunty 1970s TV advert has been pumped full of voodoo and vitamins and propped up behind a lectern to explain geopolitics to the world, but only in the kind of words you might use while arguing with your nine-year-old sister.
Trump’s messaging that afternoon ranged across boasts about his allegedly incredible new ballroom, a 600-word Truth on the poor condition of some golf courses, and a series of complaints about losing the latest appeal in his sexual harassment case – the key injustice being the fact the jury was allowed to watch a video that appears to show Trump literally boasting about his skill at sexually harassing people. This, just to be clear, is the president of the United States.
... full articleFor all the manufactured ‘Republican versus Democrat’ drama that dominates today’s cable news and political rhetoric, the most striking feature of our present-day democracy is not partisan divide – it’s a corrupt system that protects incumbents from the consequences that real democracy brings.
The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges
July 2, 2026
What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July?
Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.
Freedom has become conditional.
Constitutional rights have become political bargaining chips.
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