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The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

In case those licks and wagging tail werent convincing enough, scientists prove what we already know. Our dogs love us. They really, really love us.

From the blog of James R. Russell at The Times of Israel

After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest Reuters poll has President Joe Biden at 41 percent approval.

On Dec. 13, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in cold fusion technology. This seems like an opportune time to focus on books.

NOTE: Pioneering gay therapist and activist Dr. Charles Silverstein, who died at age 87 on January 30, shared this account of his involvement in the historic

What led to the twentieth century’s rapid economic growth? And what are the prospects for that kind of growth to return?

BERKELEY — My book on the economic history of the twentieth century, published last fall, did not include a chapter on the question of the future or “what we should do next”, because my frequent co-author, Stephen S. Cohen, convinced me that whatever I wrote would come to look outdated and silly within six months. He was right: Such arguments are better left to commentaries