Mary Ellen

Antics of Ohio's play-dead Democrats has them once again pleading for crumbs | Opinion Ohio Democrats might as be re-label the Roll-Over-and-Play-Dead Party. Recent antics have all but decided Ohio’s 2026 congressional election for Republicans.

Antics of Ohio's play-dead Democrats has them once again pleading for crumbs | Opinion
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Reverse the great rewiring of childhood with a great rewilding of childhood: Jeff Opperman Across all neighborhoods, relinquishing parental control remains a challenge, but can be accomplished most effectively through collective action — parents, neighborhoods, and schools working together ...

My new op-ed on how we need a "great rewilding" of childhood to counteract the "great rewiring of childhood" described in Anxious Generation @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social

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The nerve! Gov. DeWine wrecked higher ed and blames the tour guides DeWine’s $5,000 merit scholarship can’t mask the damage of SB 1: program cuts, shuttered DEI, politicized classrooms — and a hostile message to the very students and scholars Ohio needs to keep.

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America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

Good piece in Science by @kakape.bsky.social on the massive censorship of scientific work by the U.S. government - all in the name of free speech, presumably: www.science.org/content/arti...

Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over.

My column: The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

Opinion | A Brief History of Broken Russian Promises to Ukraine Here’s why Ukrainians want security guarantees in a cease-fire deal.

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Second only to volcano mulching which persists widely.