The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has launched a strike against these iconic giants, marking one of the most significant labor actions in recent years.
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As many others have noted, the descendants of the first hunter-gatherers that became agriculturalists wrote the founding document of the Judeo-Christian tradition. I’m referring of course to Genesis: “God said…be…
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At the quantum level, there’s a principle called non-locality. It refers not only to “the profound interconnectedness of the universe,” but to something called “entanglement,” a phenomenon whereby electrons even…
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Though the fog hadn’t burned off as it neared mid-afternoon, I hiked up-canyon beside the same stream that runs through town. The path is named the “Yahi Trail,” after the…
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Until recently I thought that activists working to bring about a sustainable, peaceful and just world were doing their bit. It was just a matter of finding a way to…
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President Trump’s Apprentice-style firing of FBI Director James Comey has thrown the United States into a constitutional crisis. “This should shock the whole of America out of its numbness,” the…
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Descartes was wrong. He should have said: I think, and therefore I am divided. Then perhaps the world would not be so divided between East and West, North and South,…
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Many years ago a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Romanenko, expressed the American ‘work ethic’ when he was asked about the beauty of the earth from space. He said, “Basically you work.”