Can it happen here?

According the Johns Hopkins Measles Tracker the US has seen 1513 measles cases this year as of March 13. (Yes, I looked on a university sit...

This, from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, floated across my BlueSky feed. I have no reason to doubt its truth and I will reproduce some of i...

Why doesn't Kamala Harris spell out her policies? The legacy mass media keep loudly demanding this. I'm talking to voters on the pho...

Today on Tom Dispatch , Erudite Partner offers " A Personal Meditation on Growing Old In a Catastrophic Age. " She wonders are we,...

Kevin Munger points out: "Harris’s nomination locks in another Boomer presidency."    I hadn't quite thought of it that way. ...

So I watched the debate. For a good bit of it that's more than figuratively true. Seeing that Biden appeared befuddled, I turned the sou...

I'm a San Franciscan. Unhappily, I'm all too used to living near unhoused people. But this summary still could jar me. A major stud...

The news that Jane McAlevey has entered hospice care hits hard. If you didn't have the chance to meet her, know that Jane was a stalwar...

  We went to a lovely birthday party last weekend; the happy recipient of this excellent t-shirt had just turned 70, a mere youth from my pe...

Atlantic editor Jennifer Senior recently explored the concept of "subjective age" [gift link] -- the sense of our own age we carr...

For a long time, and perhaps still, anyone listing the greats of the National Basketball Association would quickly name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar....

Widespread anxiety about Joe Biden's age as he approaches his re-election campaign has made me realize that I belong to a dwindling coho...

Sarah Chayes -- formerly of NPR, Afghanistan NGOs, and civilian advisor to U.S. military proconsuls -- has used the occasion of Senator Dia...

The daughter of one of the 1937 Flint GM sit-down strikers walked the picket line in solidarity with workers at GM CCA in Swartz Creek, MI, ...

... after a 40 year hiatus.  Stumbling Towards Old Age ... And Looking for Someone to Lean On It turns out that we — the people of this coun...

Paul Krugman [gift article] comes up with some data that surprised me. He explains that Miami, if anything, has less affordable housing cos...

Way back in 2010, writing at age 80, my friend Pat Sousa wrote an autobiographic account of her long working-class, lesbian life -- and I pu...

First off, I should say that Covid is not being very miserable. Some fevers, a little woozy, but mostly necessary isolation even from the EP...

Since we are condemned by Republican crazies to spend another season defending Social Security from tinkering that could devastate people wh...

A long article in the New York Times this morning made it seem as the fact of old people working well into their 70s and beyond was a pheno...