The Battle of Mosul has been going on for seven months now - longer than Stalingrad.
More than 90% of Mosul has been liberated from ISIS, leaving an area of just 9 square-kilometers. The fight for the last 10% promises to be catastrophically awful.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Kenosha, WI, Unified School District violated the rights of a trans boy, Ash Whitaker, when it refused to let him use the boys' bathroom.
New research concerning interaction between medical personnel and LGBT people has been published in JAMA.
You might think that being registered in the Democratic party makes you eligible to run for office, and even primary a Democrat who votes like a Republican most of the time. Well you would be wrong according to Sally Albright, HRC supporter, who tweeted this today:
Earlier this week UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech that was almost universally considered to be political suicide.
Supposedly the purpose of Memorial Day is to remember and honor those who died while fighting in our nation's wars.
I think it's pretty obvious that we have failed, and are failing, in both cases.
The alt-morality folks have their panties in a bunch over Bill Nye's new Netflix show.
Here's a very useful graphic of different schools of economic thought.
The two questions for this test are:
1. Are there any other schools of economic thought missing from this graphic?
2. Which of the schools of economic thought have actually resulted in creating a functioning national economy with some degree of general prosperity?
