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Richey Piiparinen of Cleveland State University explains that our region's 'higher ed community, including our research hospitals, needs to be dogged in its efforts at producing world-class R&D so as to stoke the demand side of the knowledge economy ecosystem.'
Bigotry and discrimination have not killed the American dream for all groups.
Brooks: How racist is America? July 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail One question lingers amid all the debates about critical race theory: How racist is this land? Anybody with eyes to see and ears to hear knows about the oppression of the Native Americans, about slavery and Jim Crow. But does that mean that America is even now a white supremacist nation, that whiteness is a cancer that leads to oppression for other groups? Or is racism mostly a part of America’s past, something we’ve largely overcome? There are many ways to answer these questions. The most important is by having honest conv...
The Atlantic The One Area Where the U.S. COVID-19 Strategy Seems to Be Working By spending lots of money and not worrying about liability, America is beating Europe in the vaccine race. Ryan Young / The New York Times / Redux The American government’s COVID-19 response has been a disaster, right? The United States strategy is a four-alarm dumpster fire, sent from hell to remind Americans to never again elect a president who describes the scientific method as “Now they have it, they have studied it, they know very much.” When people needed coronavirus guidance, U.S. leaders had none. ...
The One Area Where the U.S. COVID-19 Strategy Seems to Be Working Olga Khazan © Ryan Young / The New York Times / Redux The American government’s COVID-19 response has been a disaster, right? The United States strategy is a four-alarm dumpster fire, sent from hell to remind Americans to never again elect a president who describes the scientific method as “Now they have it, they have studied it, they know very much.” When people needed coronavirus guidance, U.S. leaders had none. Government officials told people not to wear masks, oh wait, to definitely wear masks—...