Politics

What Happens When You Don’t Build a 21st Century Economy? This Does — By now, you can see: it’s not over. What began with Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse is still intensifying. “Jitters,” as they say, are racing through the financial system. What’s all this really about? Why, suddenly, do we seem to be poised on the edge of a banking crisis…

Leaked emails show how the proponents of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” mobilized Internet harassment to tear down and discredit trans people who asked questions. — Last week, XTra Magazine published my profile of Elisa Shupe, an ex-“detransitioner” who leaked her full correspondence with the anti-trans movement to the press. The response from the anti-trans movement has been, well… “predictably defensive” seems like a nice, tactful way to describe it.

(Why) Our Economies Are Trapped in an Arms Race They Can’t Win — Take a hard look at our economies. What do you see? Here’s what I see: they’re trapped in an arms race they can’t win. What do I mean by that? Another month — another brutal round of interest rate rises. Don’t worry — this isn’t just going to be about…

In Florida, What Happened During The Civil Rights Era, Stays In The Civil Rights Era — I have lived in Florida for 46 years and had not heard of East Florida State College (EFSC) before today. To be fair, I had heard of its predecessor, Brevard Community College, which changed its name in 2013 when it changed its curriculum to offer four-year degrees. They have a…

“Whether to educate or not to educate female children” is today’s question in Afghanistan. — While walking the Kabul streets in the first decade of this century, I often saw signs, a billboard, or writing on the wall saying, “Learning knowledge is obligatory for Muslims (Muslim men) and Muslimas (Muslim women).” The above sentence is a literal translation of a Hadith (saying) attributed to Mohammad…

I wonder if he’d be a bit displeased…. — Jesus came to a state in the South To see it was all about He saw his name on a house Went in to check it out

One lawmaker tells his harrowing survival story, but insiders say Democratic lawmakers’ Christian beliefs doomed the bill. — There is nothing controversial about this. What it is saying is, you cannot torture a child… [Staff at my Christian school] were inflicting pain beyond belief. And they would quote Bible verses at us while they poured hot steaming water on every single one of us. — Jackson County Legislator…