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I'm wondering to what extent the religious right is responsible for sowing distrust of scientific expertise to the point that wearing a mask--common sense based on science--has now become a

There isn't a day that goes by that I wonder to myself, where did we go wrong? There are lots of valid responses. The 1980 election is one because we're

THREAD. With the protests against stay-at-home orders mushrooming across the U.S., journalists and pundits are making comparisons to the Tea Party protests of 2009-2010. It's worth revisiting what many historians

Do your lectures ever leave you sad? The promise of supply side economics was that if we cut taxes, undermined labor unions, and deregulated industry, we'd have more jobs, more

I'll never forget hearing a guest lecturer in a history of rock class at UC Davis wondering aloud whether Van Morrison, Steely Dan, and Stevie Wonder were jazz musicians who