Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through previous…
No really. One of my first stories on Donald Trump was in October, 2015, 13 months before he was elected. It was about his roots. I liked his grandfather, Frederick Drumpf, best, for he’d made his start-up money, first in…
When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
Long before Communism, the Chinese had been considered “inscrutable”. Popular fiction of the late 19th-early 20th Century had portrayed them as possessing the most complex and cunning criminal minds, both for crime, Fu Manchu, (the creation of Sax Rohmer of…