On November 15, after this piece had gone to print, the New York Police Department announced that Deputy Chief Michael Osgood would be removed from the Special Victims Division and…
When soda was a wonder, not a basic human right
“Debates over vaccination, then as now, were often cast as debates over the integrity of science, though they could just as easily be understood as conversations about power.”
From an 1851 “list of imitation book-backs” sent by Charles Dickens to a London bookbinder.
“For every five oils used, an environmental disaster results.”
“These rich farm bastards . . . support fat institutions of learning like the University of Iowa, which should be able to pay a decent fee for writers to come…