08 October 18 PM
Juan Cole | Fate of 190,000-Years-Old Human Race Depends on Massive Greening Effort Over Just 30 Years
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "It strikes me as darkly humorous that we, the most intelligent species ever to have evolved on earth, homo sapiens (evolved circa 190,000 years ago), were so clever that around 1750 we started burning so much wood, coal and later on oil and natural gas that we started changing our own climate so much that it may threaten our survival."
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "It strikes me as darkly humorous that we, the most intelligent species ever to have evolved on earth, homo sapiens (evolved circa 190,000 years ago), were so clever that around 1750 we started burning so much wood, coal and later on oil and natural gas that we started changing our own climate so much that it may threaten our survival."
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Christine Blasey Ford. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)
Christine Blasey Ford Still Can't Go Home Due to 'Unending' Death Threats
Rafi Schwartz, Splinter News
Schwartz writes: "Two weeks after testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party in the early 1980s, a lawyer for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says she's still unable to return to her California home because of the sheer volume of death threats she's received since coming forward with her story."
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Rafi Schwartz, Splinter News
Schwartz writes: "Two weeks after testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party in the early 1980s, a lawyer for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says she's still unable to return to her California home because of the sheer volume of death threats she's received since coming forward with her story."
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Jason Van Dyke. (photo: Antonio Perez/AFP/Getty Images)
Convicting Laquan McDonald's Killer Isn't Enough
Nate Marshall, BuzzFeed
Marshall writes: "The guilty verdict passed on police officer Jason Van Dyke is necessary and so infuriatingly insufficient."
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Nate Marshall, BuzzFeed
Marshall writes: "The guilty verdict passed on police officer Jason Van Dyke is necessary and so infuriatingly insufficient."
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Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Supreme Court of the United States)
'Mandatory Detentions' of Immigrants at Stake in Justice Kavanaugh's First Big Case
Scott Bixby, The Daily Beast
Bixby writes: "The ACLU calls the law a 'draconian response to an imaginary problem,' while Republicans argue the government needs 'broad power to detain.'"
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Scott Bixby, The Daily Beast
Bixby writes: "The ACLU calls the law a 'draconian response to an imaginary problem,' while Republicans argue the government needs 'broad power to detain.'"
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Some of the original 58 wooden crosses that were set up as part of a memorial after the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre on the Las Vegas Strip. (photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
A Year After the Las Vegas Shooting, Congress Still Hasn't Banned Bump Stocks
Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Here it is a year later, and bump stocks are still legal and available for sale in most of the country."
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Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Here it is a year later, and bump stocks are still legal and available for sale in most of the country."
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Jair Bolsonaro. (photo: Evaristo SA/Getty Images)
A Far-Right Authoritarian Is Edging Towards Power in Brazil
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "Jair Bolsonaro has praised Brazil's military dictatorship, which led the country up until 1985."
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Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "Jair Bolsonaro has praised Brazil's military dictatorship, which led the country up until 1985."
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Earth from space. (photo: Modis/Aqua/NASA)
A Final Call to Save the World From 'Climate Catastrophe'
Matt McGrath, BBC News
McGrath writes: "Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C."
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Matt McGrath, BBC News
McGrath writes: "Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C."
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