To the editor: The Times' editorial board issues yet another dire warning about the health of our planet. Record-breaking heat due to fossil fuel emissions shows we are headed in the wrong direction. These grim facts might leave readers discouraged and hopeless. While there is damage that we may not be able to fix, it's not too late to heal our Earth. Indeed, we have seen other seemingly hopeless situations change. My grandmothers couldn't vote when they came of age. There were racial covenants...
To the editor: "Fearmongering" is bad, but the opposite can be far worse. A case in point is the recent op-ed article debating the cause of our country's mental health crisis. ("Does social media rewire kids' brains? Here’s what the science really says," Opinion, April 26) Depression, suicide and psychiatric hospitalization rates among youth "hockey sticked" upward around 2012 and kept rising. New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's recent book corroborated what we all felt:...
UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid ransom to cyberthreat actors to try and protect patient data.
GPs are routinely writing sick notes for patients they have not seen. Doctors admit '95 per cent' of requests are waved through without assessing the patient first and are 'rarely ever' denied.
Mauricio Pochettino refused to blame his players for Chelsea's record defeat to Arsenal but lamented the inconsistency of his team. The Blues manager said: 'Our standard doesn’t sustain the bad days. When we have bad days, you know, we are so bad. And then when we are good, we are capable of everything.' Pochettino's comments come after Arsenal defeated his side 5-0. Continue reading
OLIVER HOLT: So much for The Choke. Resurgent Arsenal humiliated Chelsea. Arsenal moved three points clear in the title race by crushing Chelsea at home. Prejudice and bias are dangerous claims from these clubs. Liverpool, Arsenal and now Forest. It's embarrassing – Listen to the
I read the letter to The Madera Tribune (April 3) by Chuck Wieland and the reply (April 10) by John Wright. I appreciated the comments by Wieland about Trump, the Republican party and the colorful language.“Let’s not be silently complicit in transforming America into a Bizarro World. Or Amerika.” Wright wrote that regarding Wieland’s comments, he was “stunned, disgusted and disappointed.” I feel that I have to inform Wright that not everyone in Madera County is a MAGA Trumper. That anyone who...
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
“[Donald Trump] thinks he’s being persecuted, but he’s simply being held to account for his alleged actions, as every other citizen of this country would be.”
The alleged multi-level marketing practice of a local pharmaceutical company exposed by media is now the talk of the health care community.
The Bad Faith Olympics Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.” - Dr. Toby Rogers Did it warm your heart to see all those blue and yellow Ukrainian flags waved by our elected officials in Congress...
There was no internet during the Enlightenment, but something surprisingly similar did exist in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was the Republic of Letters: a virtual, global community of scientists and intellectuals who exchanged information using the fastest technology available at the time — the postal service. 15,000 letters The clue is in the name: letters tied this self-proclaimed, transnational society together. Lots of letters. What this “metaphysical republic” lacked in speed, it made...