Author: Carma Henry

     The aide, Rachel Perrin Rogers, and the lobbyist, Laura McLeod, declined to testify, leaving Miller to say she had little choice but to seek dismissal.

     Justices are weighing a legal challenge to a 2022 law that prevented abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. A ruling in the lawsuit, which could take months, also will affect a law passed this year that would bar abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office are issuing a warning for a legal yet potentially deadly drug that is easily obtained. The drug, Cyproheptadine, potentially led to the death of an infant in Broward County.

Leaders within the Democratic Party in the last Congress demonstrated their political will for a reparations commission. 217 confirmed yes votes in the House and half of the Senate Committee chairs, along with the Senate Leader, and many of their colleagues, signed on to the Senate bill.

People tell me that humanity has been at war for all of recorded history. I respond by saying that we are (supposedly) rational creatures with a built-in evolutionary survival instinct. If that is true, we can change when required. It is now required that we evolve if we are to survive.

      You probably couldn’t have asked for a more thoughtful Chair of the Joint Chiefs than Mark Milley, whose term ends on September 30. He was one of the good guys who repeatedly restrained President Trump from veering into dubious schemes—such as a war of choice with Iran.

     The war (like all wars) has to stop, but NATO and the U.S., just like Russia itself, are looking not for peace and conflict resolution but victory. Killing the enemy is what matters, the more the better. 

      Ideas about how to end the Ukraine war abound. None come from Ukraine. None have gained traction. Here, nevertheless, are three examples of what knowledgeable people are thinking, along with my evaluation.

22 Years Do-Over Thought Experiment

Normalizing the Killing Fields