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Omicron and the Vaccines
Via the NYT: Most of the World’s Vaccines Likely Won’t Prevent Infection From Omicron. A growing body of preliminary research suggests the Covid vaccines used in most of the world offer almost no...
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On the Number of Parties 3: More Sophisticated Counting
The previous entries in this series: On the Number of Parties 1: Basic Counting, Part 1 On the Number of Parties 2: Basic Counting, Part 2 The number of parties matters for a variety of reasons. One...
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CDC Lessens Quarantine Recommendations Despite Omicron’s Spread
The flurry of news around the latest COVID variant, Omicron, is enough to make your head spin. The biggest development is good: WaPo (“CDC cuts isolation time recommended for people with asymptomatic...
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Capitol Riot: One Year Later
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, thousands of people...
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Sidney Poitier, 1927-2022
Washington Post (“Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win Oscar for best actor, dies at 94“): Sidney Poitier, who was the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor and who forever changed...
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Covid Triumphalism
At NYT, David Leonhardt proclaims “Omicron Is in Retreat.” His evidence is familiar and reassuring. BLUF: The latest Omicron developments continue to be encouraging. New Covid-19 cases are plummeting...
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The Beginning of a Response to the Beginning of an Invasion
The News: WSJ (“U.S. Adds Sanctions on Moscow After Saying Russia Invaded Ukraine“): President Biden imposed new sanctions on Russia, but held back on steeper economic penalties in a bid to maintain...
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Ukraine Invasion Sending History in a New Direction?
The News: NYT (“China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say“): A Western intelligence report said senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early...
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American Excess Deaths from COVID
It takes a while for David Wallace-Wells to get to his point in “What a Single Metric Tells Us About the Pandemic.” He begins with a longish setup about the changing narratives, including this...
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Most Americans Have Had COVID-19
On the same day it was reported that Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive, the CDC announced that 60 percent of all Americans and 75 percent of all American children have been infected...
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Tucker Carlson White Supremacist Messaging
When Tucker Carlson debuted as a CNN talking head in 2000, I thought he was an intellectual lightweight and wondered how he got to be the co-host of the network’s “Crossfire,” sitting in a seat that...
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Ukraine War Adding to Global Food Insecurity
While we in the West are complaining about inflation and worried about a possible recession, things are really, really bad elsewhere. WSJ (“Rising Food Prices Roil Developing World“): Soaring food...
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Michael Langley to be 1st Black Marine 4-Star General
Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper reporting for NYT (“Pentagon Taps Next Commander of U.S. Forces in Africa“): Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has recommended that the White House promote Lt. Gen....
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The Identity Politics of Identity Politics
As I get back in gear as my cold wears off, I wanted to touch on a NYT report (“Hochul’s Lt. Governor Pick Says He Is Afro-Latino. Some Latinos Object.“) that I didn’t get to over the weekend. Here’s...
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Anti-Gay Extremism in Nigeria
Prefatory note: this post is not aimed at James Joyner’s post from earlier today, although that post did remind me that I have been meaning to write the following since Thursday. A friend brought this...
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