Woodrow Wilson (far right) contracted the flu while attending peace talks in Paris in April 1919. (Public domain via Wikipedia Commons) Woodrow Wilson Denied Being Ill Will Influenza What Happened When Woodrow Wilson Came Down With the 1918 Flu? https://t.co/FYUxeMLGaX — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) October 3, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The influenza pandemic in 1918 killed about 675,000 Americans in the 15 months that it raged. […]
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A view facing east from the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles shows the nearby flames of the Bobcat Fire early Wednesday. Screenshot by NPR/HPWREN hide caption toggle caption Screenshot by NPR/HPWREN A view facing east from the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles shows the nearby flames of the Bobcat Fire early Wednesday. Screenshot by NPR/HPWREN Los Angeles’ Mount Wilson Observatory, the site of major […]
Trump and Baghdadi in Syria By Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad In an editorial [1] last week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, lambasted Donald Trump for canceling a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 due to rain, and accused him of disparagingly mentioning military veterans as “losers” and “suckers.” Some wow reporting from @JeffreyGoldberg —> Trump called dead Marines buried at Belleau […]
In case you missed it, we launched a new podcast in April called The New Abnormal, hosted by your favorite troublemakers, Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast. Packed with blunt truth and dark humor, it covers everything from that grifter in the White House to COVID truthers and deniers. When we first released the podcast, it was clear things had gone off the rails, but even we couldn’t […]
Princeton has decided to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school over his segregationist views, in the same way other historical leaders have been targeted during the protests over the death of George Floyd. “Wilson’s racist views and policies make him an inappropriate namesake,” the university’s president, Christopher L Eisgruber, announced in a letter sent to the school community on Saturday. Removing Wilson’s name […]