Zhixue village at sunset

Living in Taiwan means having an opinion as to which convenience store has the best tasting baked sweet potatoes.

Taiwanese companies are manipulating air pollution emissions readings to make it look like pollution is getting better when everyone knows it’s getting worse.

GOP and Democrats on Ilhan Omar Isn’t About Anti-Semitism

The Democratic Party Attacks on Ilhan Omar Are a Travesty (Upset? Consider donating to her reelection campaign…)

Neoliberalism is not just a political failure, it’s an economic failure as well

Can’t believe people are approvingly circulating a NY Times op-ed by American Enterprise Institute chair Arthur Brooks about fighting contempt. If you want to see contempt, just look at the history of the AEI!

After Pulwama and Balakot, the Indian media proves it is the BJP’s propaganda machine “More than two weeks after the attack… no news site had rectified the errors in their reporting”

Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files

‘We are fighting’: Brazil’s indigenous groups unite to protect their land

The politics of a coup d’etat

Eject all the rapaciousness like shaking off nephrolithiasis

Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign rally was attended by large numbers of women and people of color

In many ways cell phones have made us less global, not more so.

A Clinton-era Democrat makes the case for the left

Pokemon stupa with scooter mirror lotus petals

Pokemon stupa with scooter mirror lotus petals

In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean? (Everyone should read this book. Not only is heredity much more complex than most people understand, but the history of how we know what we know about heredity is expertly told as well.)

Most Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions

To win minorities’ support, China offers places at boarding school - A class apart

When do you become ‘British enough’?

How a Private Israeli Intelligence Firm Spied on Pro-Palestinian Activists in the U.S.

China’s expanding war on Islam: Now they’re coming for the Kazakhs.

As patriotic propaganda video praising Huawei goes viral, netizens mock the company’s political connections

He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims