[ad_1] By Cate Mingoya-LaFortune, a people-centered climate adaptation planner, community organizer, educator, parent, and cautious optimist. Raised in an environmental justice neighborhood, Mingoya-LaFortune is committed…

[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. For readers who don’t know what HICPAC (Healthcare Infection Control and Prevention Advisory Committee) is, we’ll get to that…

[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Common Nightingale, Piran, Slovenia. In Case You Might Miss… Friday: RCP poll (Trump leads),…

[ad_1] About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal…

[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “The system’s not broken. It’s fixed.” –Apocryphal I apologize to readers for the lateness of the hour. Normally, I’d…

[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Common Nightingale, Vía sin nombre, Villafranca, Navarra, Comunidad Foral de, Spain. “Foraging or eating.”…

[ad_1] I’ve covered the Zangezur Corridor in southern Armenia with some regularity here. It’s a short 42-kilometer strip of land link in a trade and…

[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day I thought I would try some nightingales…. Common Nightingale, Sotos de Albolafia, Córdoba, Andalucía,…

[ad_1] Yves here. Readers regularly give updates on the crapification of medicine, mainly from the patient but sometimes the provider side. A big driver is…

[ad_1] Yves here. While this Thomas Neuburger post, and the Chris Hedges tweetstorm that inspired it, make the important point that violence begats violence, the…

[ad_1] Lambert here: I think “fret” is a bit weak. How about “screamingly frustrated”? By Noam N. Levey, a senior correspondent at KFF Health News.…