The sick politics at the heart of this week's US crisis go deeper than Donald Trump
The US President's dangerous delusions and his crazed followers should remind us that America has always teetered on the edge of collapse, writes Stan Grant.
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The US President's dangerous delusions and his crazed followers should remind us that America has always teetered on the edge of collapse, writes Stan Grant.
By Austin Frakt Austin Frakt is director of the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System; associate professor with Boston University’s School of Public Health; and a senior research scientist with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He blogs at The Incidental Economist, and you can follow him on Twitter at @afrakt Dec. 30, 2020 U.S. suicide rates vary widely across racial and ethnic groups in ways that can upend expectations. The explanations may suggest avenues for prevention. Suicide in America has been rising for two decades, with ra...
We posed the following question to 22 writers and public figures: “What book would you recommend Joe Biden read to inform his presidency?” Here are their answers.
The Best Political Economy Books of 2020 Writer and editor, ProMarket. As a journalist, he has mostly covered issues related to the intersection between politics and the economy, such as antitrust, corruption, lobbying and social movements. Prior to joining the Stigler center, he worked for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz-TheMarker, where he was a senior features writer and still writes as a political columnist. He is the author of Rothschild: The Story of a Protest Movement (2012, Hakibbutz Hameuhad-Sifriat Poalim Publishing Group), a nonfiction book covering Israel’s social protests of 2011...
Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. “Tightrope,” a Companion Documentary to a Book Published Earlier This Year, Looks at Poverty and Addiction in Yamhill and Beyond “The problems we illuminate are unemployment, addiction, isolation. Now, we have 11 million fewer people employed than we did before the pandemic. Addiction rates have soared." TIGHTROPE WALK: New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof grew up in Yamhill, where many of his peers have since found...