There’s something fundamentally excessive about winter sports. Instead of curling up with a book or Netflix when the weather turns cold, winter athletes wrestle with inordinate layers and…
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Read more One of Tuberculosis’s Biggest, Scariest Numbers Is Probably WrongMaddy Montiel and Brad Butterfield marveled at the community they found this semester at Cal Poly Humboldt. Montiel, an environmental science major, and Butterfield, a journalism major, had…
Read more Cal Poly Humboldt students live in vehicles to afford college. They were ordered off campus.One couldn’t help but pity the dutiful campaign staffers and surrogates who trickled into the spin room in Milwaukee last night. They arrived with an unenviable task: to…
Read more Magical Thinking in MilwaukeeBarack Obama did it. Donald Trump did it. Joe Biden, of course, has done it too. But each of them was wrong: Kissing another person’s baby is just…
Read more Please Stop Kissing Strangers’ BabiesYou may not be aware of this, but you can read everything that your doctor writes about you. Go to your patient portal online, click around until you…
Read more Do You Really Want to Read What Your Doctor Writes About You?Have you ever met someone who’s watching their life’s work—their very legacy—fall apart in front of their eyes? I’m talking to two of them right now. Earl and…
Read more Why Democrats are Losing Hispanic Voters
