Fiona Hill testified at the first impeachment hearing of the former President. Her opening statement was stunning, blowing up the fiction that Trump and Russia were pushing that the Ukraine had somehow interfered with the 2016 election.
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Three Physicists Share the Nobel Prize for Contributions Toward Understanding Climate Change
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been announced as winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics. The prize is awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg — Confronting Our National Covid Loss Through Art
Last year, artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg created an outdoor installation in Washington comprised of more than 267,000 white flags—one for every person in the United States who had died from COVID-19. This year, she has returned and expanded her work. Now, there are some 650,000 flags placed on the National Mall.
Overcoming Our Differences—With or Without a Heineken
In 2017, Heineken put considerable time and expense into creating a video which while it is a commercial, pointed out the solution that the purveyors of hate seriously dislike: open and direct communication.
Nope, Trump Would Not Have Done a Better Job of the Afghanistan Evacuation
Don’t buy the BS that Trump would have done a better job for the Afghans. Olivia Troye, a former White House national security staffer during the Trump administration, makes it perfectly clear that the opposite is true.
Congressional Democrats Need to Take Lesson from Texas
As Texas state Democratic lawmakers on Monday undertook a daring effort to deny their Republican colleagues the quorum needed to ram through a sweeping voter suppression package, progressive advocates and observers implored congressional Democrats to act boldly to protect U.S. democracy from the GOP onslaught.
Fact Hero: Daryl Davis — Making Ex-Klansmen, One at a Time
Musician Daryl Davis has an unusual hobby that sets him apart. Daryl meets and becomes friends with members of the Ku Klux Klan—something few black men can say.
Fact Hero: Brent Wisner — The 2 Billion Dollar Man
How R. Brent Wisner landed one of the largest product-defect jury awards in history.
Darnella Frazier Receives Pulitzer Special Citation
Darnella Frazier, the Minnesota teen whose cellphone video recording of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck last May was key piece of prosecution evidence in the trial the ended with the former Minneapolis police officer’s murder conviction, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Friday.