Coronavirus Vaccinations – Statistics- Our World in Data

Normalcy in US projected by second quarter — if no new mutations arise. Transition toward normalcy in the United States remains most likely in the second quarter of 2021 and herd immunity in the third and fourth quarters, but the emergence of new strains and a slow start to vaccine rollout raise real risks to …

The Quest for Unity

Whenever a politician issues a call for unity two serious questions immediately arise: unity in exchange for what? who are the parties to the agreement? Where existing political parties represent the great majority of the public “unity” can be achieved by coalition government, bipartisan agreement or other similar consensus mechanisms. However where parties have been …

Listening to a Team of Wordsmiths

The script returns to its central place in governance as Biden’s speeches are written by committee. But is he speaking through the committee or vice versa? Is it Milli Vanilli or Cyrano de Bergerac? Biden has grown comfortable with chief speech writer Vinay Reddy and senior adviser Mike Donilon, who have helped him thread his …

Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks

A world that’s been locked down, surveilled, censored, deplatformed and purged must be wondering how much more progress it can stand. A whole lot more probably. People have no idea how defective they are deemed to be. If you didn’t know how virtuous it was you might get the wrong idea. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon …

Backing Up Your Social Media Data

Did you know you can back up your social media data? The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want. The contributors to the Data Transfer Project believe portability …

Maybe the Deplorables Are Today’s People of Color

Back in 1988 Bill Moyers was recalling Lyndon Johnson explaining how to keep whites poor by encouraging them to look down on “colored men”. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch …