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Exploring the troubling background of Reddit Director of Policy Jessica Ashooh, her links to a dictatorship and hawkish think tanks.

Exploring the troubling background of Reddit Director of Policy Jessica Ashooh, her links to a dictatorship and hawkish think tanks.

Does banning bad behavior just make it worse?

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- “Raise your hand if you think you’ve had a harder week than I’ve had.” It was Feb. 14, 2019, in the early afternoon, and for perhaps the first time in the 25-year history of Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos was prepared to explain himself to his employees.

Maglev to Destroy Habitat, Climate SHARE A proposed maglev line between Washington and Baltimore will disrupt 1,000 acres of “parks, recreational facilities and wetlands,” according to a recently released draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the project. That’s a lot of land considering that all but nine miles of the project would be underground. While 180 acres are for a maintenance facility, the remaining acres represent a right‐​of‐​way that is an average...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to equate President Joe Biden’s reopening of a migrant facility for unaccompanied minors with the Trump administration’s horrific record on child detention — then walked her criticism of Biden back after half an hour of intense reaction. On Tuesday afternoon, AOC posted a link to a Washington Postarticle entitled “First migrant facility for children opens under Biden,” and wrote, “This is not okay, never has been okay, never will be ok...

Despite the tone of a lot of recent pandemic coverage, it seems like things may get a lot better—and soon. But have we become addicted to bad news?

We Need to Prepare for the Possibility That Something Good Might Happen Esquire 2/24/2021 Jack Holmes © Jacob King - Getty Images Despite the tone of a lot of recent pandemic coverage, it seems like things may get a lot better—and soon. But have we become addicted to bad news? Over the last year—make that five—it has become customary to note that everything will only get worse. Pandemic life has been interrupted mostly by natural disasters exacerbated by the growing c...

A response to my critics.

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us Imagine you’re taking a walk through your neighborhood, enjoying the peaceful sounds of birds singing in the trees and the wind gently blowing through the leaves … then all of the sudden, the sound of a jackhammer instantly jolts you out of your cloud of peaceful, nature-filled bliss. Whether you live in a busy city or a quiet suburb...