Christina Sommers š§¢
Resident scholar, AEI. Former philosophy professor. Author of War Against Boys. Host of YouTubeās The Factual Feminist & co-host of weekly podcast @Femsplainers
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Nice White Ladies Pay To Get Called Racist Over Dinner
After diagnosing Jesse's troubling cough and recapping Katie's not-quite-nettles tea incident, the cohosts discuss the effect coronavirus is likely to have on the dumbest flashpoints in the online culture wars, Katie invalidates the existence of a...
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for COVID-19 after coming into contact with an asymptomatic caretaker
A caretaker at the zoo was infected but asymptomatic, and infected the tiger, along with other big cats.
Women Aren't NagsāWe're Just Fed Up
Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.
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Someone sent me this as evidence of womenās plight under patriarchy. To me, its evidence of a man being relentlessly bullied by his injustice-collecting wife. When he tries to defend himself, she accuses him of costing her too much āemotional labor.ā
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The Challenge of Preparation
Over at ABC News, Matthew Mosk tells the story of the huge government-wide pandemic-preparation effort of the George W. Bush administration in 2005-06. As a White House health staffer in those yearā¦
Here are 450 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for free
The 8 Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world.
They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia
universities, and the University of Pennsylvania.
All eight schools place in the top...
Let's compare coronavirus hospitalizations to flu hospitalizations
You probably have friends who are still getting together for poker nights because they donāt think the coronavirus pandemic is really the once-in-a-century threat to human life and health that itās being treated as. Maybe you, yourself, think that...
Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury
As the virus continues to spread throughout the nation, an analysis of cellphone data shows that those in the wealthiest areas have been able to reduce their movements more than those in the poorest areas.
Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay
Extra money would be a tangible show of gratitude and would enable them to care better for everyone.
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Agree! āFrontline health workers deserve hazard pay for their heroic work,ā writes @slsatel ā¦@AEIā©
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Tiger King star in virus isolation, husband says
Joe 'Exotic' is among the 146,000 federal inmates the US prisons bureau is placing in quarantine.
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Can we handle this right now? BBC News - āCoronavirus: 'Tiger King' star now in virus isolation, says husband ā
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This Rap-Based School Curriculum Is Teaching Kids That John Locke Was Cool Like Che Guevera
The Cuban revolutionary was not a big fan of life, liberty, and property.
Malaysia government tells women not to nag husbands amid coronvirus lockdown
Malaysiaās government has sparked outrage by telling women to avoid nagging their hubbies during the coronavirus lockdown. A series of online posters with the hashtag #WomenPreventCOVID19 tolā¦
A Brief History of Quarantine
Historian Lisa Hilton explores the history of the practice of Quarantine, developed in Venice over 600 years ago. Written and presented by Lisa Hilton Produc...
FDA authorizes first coronavirus antibody test
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued its first emergency use authorization for a coronavirus test that looks for antibodies in the blood.
Pakistani Court Overturns Murder Conviction in Killing of Wall Street Journal Reporter
The court also reduced the British nationalās death sentence to seven yearsā time served in prison for his kidnapping conviction in the 2002 case of the killing of reporter Daniel Pearl.
Pro-Trump Super PAC to Spend $10 Million on Attack Ads Against Biden
The ads bought by the group, America First, will air in three Rust Belt states that were pivotal to President Trumpās victory in 2016.
PR - Queen Mary research calls for an intersectional view of the coronavirus pandemic - Queen Mary University of London
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University of London researchers call for an āintersectional view of the coronavirus pandemicā but they seem not to have noticed that itās mostly men who are dying.
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COVID-19 ā Global Health 50/50
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@coldxman @JonStewartMill3 But it does see gender. Far more men are dying.
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Preliminary Estimates of the Prevalence of Selected Underlying...
Based on preliminary U.S. data, people with select underlying health conditions (e.g. diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease) and known risk factors for respiratory infections...
David Lat, Eyeing Hospital Discharge, Talks About His Battle and Donating Blood to COVID-19 Research
I don't think I've fully wrapped my headāand heartāaround the enormity of what I've just been through,ā he said during his first interview since returning to stable condition, conducted via direct messaging on Twitter. And I'm so grateful to be...