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The life and times of the world’s
most self-deluded online superstar
News & Commentary
Disney and Marvel
Pelz isn’t wholly wrong.
Debate over Middle East conflict flares as students, some educators stage walkout in Portland
Get politics out of public schools.
Portland wants to place high-need special education students in their neighborhood schools. Can the district make it work?
The short answer is “no.”
Gender wage gap in Washington is among widest in nation, analysis shows
What a story…except that it’s not true.
Lyft and Uber to cease operations in Minneapolis after new minimum wage law
The real minimum wage is zero.
Cold water immersion benefits are not backed by quality science, report says
It’s not that it doesn’t work. It’s just that there’s no proof that it does.
Community prays, calls for action after Bush’s Pasture Park shooting
Let’s remember the victims not the assailants
Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime
No need for hate crime laws.
This is what the fentanyl crisis looks like in a state rethinking its historic drug policy
Ending the tragedy of Measure 110
Oregon Senate passes anti-book-ban bill over Republican objections
It seems like age-appropriateness might be a legitimate standard.
Essays
Trump and COVID-19
It’s not a hoax, and if you think it is, this essay is for you.
Stereotypes
Why I can think Americans are idiots but you’re just dandy.
Fourth of July 2020
A call for a return to American values
Bostock v. Clayton County
A Supreme Court decision about the meaning of “sex.” Never a better time to say, IANAL! (I Am Not A Lawyer—what did you think I meant?)