Leave it to the Swedes – who zigged when everyone else was sagging in the wake of the global pandemic – to question the conventional wisdom that so-called non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) […]
Fooling ourselves?
Culture peace
CHITINA – The big, muddy, always raging Copper River had shifted its channel south offshore beneath the McCarthy Road bridge, and a lot of dipnet handle was needed to reach the current […]
Two Americas
PORT OF TACOMA – On the road for 2,500 miles through the American Heartland from near the Motor City that shaped the nation’s 20th century to the edge of the Pacific Ocean, […]
Hunting trust
This just in: A new study has concluded most of the people reading this don’t think about news the way journalists think about news. Surprise, surprise. But first the good news: The study […]
Bad vibes
On the day Glenn Greenwald, once a darling of the U.S. media but increasingly an outcast, ripped into a predominately blue media’s coverage of the red half of America, Alaska’s largest newspaper […]
Forgotten tribe
Once again, an Alaska leader is in a battle with federal officialdom more than 3,000 miles away on the opposite coast of the North American continent. This time it is Gov. Mike […]
‘It’s the , stupid’
Messaging matters, and a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn about the health messaging in this country is that it sucked. The U.S. per capita […]
3rd wave coming?
On the other side of the world, a masked-up Italy is locking down again in the face of a March 2021 wave of COVID-19 infections looking like the deadly wave of 2020 […]
Iditarod, take two
If Alaska’s largest newspaper is to be believed, you can now add the so-called “Last Great Race” to the filmed events of which you must ask “is it real or is it […]
Maj. Major
The Anchorage Police Department’s sometimes apparently fictitious Facebook feature – What Not To Do Wednesday (WNTDW) – has been shut down apparently due to the efforts of a woman who works for […]
