#Decades

1/36 A thread on Alana Newhouse's Tablet essay. I'm sorry to criticize an essay framed around a writer's ill child. But my dream for the 2020s is to read big,
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Since it looks like I'm the messenger of doom, it's a good time to highlight all the good news about #coronavirus Thread1. Only 0.5%-1% of those who catch it die.
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Hi, friends. As ‘Rona rages on, even though I haven’t ascribed to any religion in two decades, I keep thinking about a lyric from this dang church song from my
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Doctors and researchers recognize that translational medicine (a branch of science that aims to take basic research and translate it into evidence-based medical practice) is important. We need a similar
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It’s McDonough for @DeptVetAffairs. A stunningly strange and surprising pick. He’s not a vet. And not a post-9/11 vet. And he’s another white guy leading an agency that badly needs
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Some positive news for 2020: not only are we replacing old roads named after white supremacists, but we're naming *new* ones not after some variant of shrubbery.The roads for the
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Can any MP ask the government why early treatment kits to stop viral replication & infection are not made available cheaply & prescription free in pharmacies as they are in
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People are rightly appalled by the Netflix show rated TV-MA with scantily clad little girls dancing inappropriately. Lifelong dancer here. The costumes don’t bother me as much as the sexualization
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A few notes about #Turkey revoking Hagia Sophia's museum status:1. #Erdogan is converting #HagiaSophia into a mosque, a decision that sparks risky polarization between #Muslims and #Christians. #Turkey's no shortage
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I've noticed a pattern in which whenever I engage with anything on here to do with Trans issues I lose 2/3 followers, and that's fine, but to be honest I'd
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This idea - that elections should translate into policy - is not wrong at all. But political science can help explain why it's not working this way. There are three
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Scattered points, but somehow interlinked:When did the #UnitedStates start paying attention to the Middle East? Or let me ask in a different formulation, when did the United States realize the
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I took a look at Shell's first ever 1.5C scenario and found that it is... remarkably similar to its “well-below 2C” scenario.Oil, gas, coal, solar.... all basically unchanged.The key difference:
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South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was grilled on CNN recently about South Korea’s new anti-leaflet law. What is the anti-leaflet law, and why is this issue being elevated by
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A thread on writing contemporary history and getting older: I’ve been teaching a lot of contemporary British history this term, encouraging my students to reflect upon the challenges of writing
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The more I write about this, the more it becomes plain: if Biden loses, 2020 will be the last remotely free and fair election we have for decades, and certainly
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