Holy Relics and Celebrity Mementos Put Heaven Within Reach
Relics bring people closer to connection with the eternal, no matter what form they take. Emma J Wells writes.
The May Consumer Price Index Puts Inflation Hawks into Feeding Frenzy
The effects of the pandemic on consumer spending have some economists worried about inflation. Dean Baker explains why they shouldn’t be.
Zika Emergency Puts Open Data Policies to the Test
The Zika outbreak comes at a time of ongoing advances in data sharing policy, including a new call by the Wellcome Trust for journals and research funders to support open sharing of Zika research. PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl and PLOS NTDs co-Editor-in-Chief Peter Hotez call on researchers to make full use of these opportunities.
“You Showed Us What Hope Looked Like”
Hope is a scarce commodity behind bars, but a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and 25 life-sentence-serving inmates are trying to regrow it.
Sunday Comics
There are no angels left in America anymore! They left after the Second World War, heading west — stopping briefly in Japan during the 60’s and then in Tianamen Square during the 80s. They kept heading west to who knows where…What are they after?
Sunday Comics
Bacharach and David used to write his favorite songs. Never, never, never would he worry; he’d run and fetch the ball — but the hip hop and the white funk just blew away my puppy’s mind!
When the Dentist Spoke at the Anti-War Rally
Poetry by Max Reif.
Vaccinating the World: If We Had Grown Ups in Charge
Dean Baker makes the case for open source COVID-19 research and vaccines.
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