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Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize

October 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The world’s newest Nobel laureate takes a bow.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics has been awarded to 90 men since 1969 and just three women. The third woman to win the prize, distinguished Harvard labor economist Claudia Goldin, was honored on Oct. 9, 2023, for her decades of work studying the gender pay gap. It wasn’t a victory just for her but for women in the field.

Eyeless in Gaza: A Key to Understanding This War

October 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Destruction from the latest siege of Gaza.

How did Gaza become one of the most densely populated parts of the planet? And why is it the home to militant Palestinian action now? Understanding the answers to those questions provides crucial historical context to the current violence.

Israel-Hamas War: No Matter Who Loses, Iran Wins

October 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Israelis inspect the rubble of a building in Tel Aviv on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.

Analysts are suggesting that Tehran’s fingerprints can be seen on the surprise attack on Israel. At the very least, Iran’s leaders have reacted to the assault with encouragement and support.

Branson, Missouri’s Lesson to Live Theater ‘In Crisis’

October 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

‘The Shepherd of the Hills’ has been running for 63 years and is the most performed outdoor drama in the U.S.

American live theater, especially regional, non-profit theater, is on the verge of collapse. One place to look for ideas is the tourist town of Branson, Missouri. Scholars and theater critics have ignored this mecca of live entertainment that attracts millions of people a year, largely because of its reputation for cheesy performances and political conservatism.

Serenity Now: Meet Jon Fosse, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jon Fosse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Despite having been in the running for the award for a number of years, Fosse, as with several other 21st century European laureates like Elfriede Jelinek and the controversial Peter Handke, is still largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Fosse’s massive literary oeuvre includes roughly 40 plays as well as novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations.

In Florida, Surgeon General Normalizes Medical Quackery

October 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, in an “America’s Frontline Doctors” lab coat, speaks at a July 2020 event that included Stella Immanuel, a doctor who said “demonic seed” causes ovarian cysts and endometriosis. (Screenshot from YouTube)

In 2021, when Ron DeSantis brought the Quack Ladapo to Florida, it was like returning to a simpler, much stupider time, when docs prescribed drinking a little ground unicorn horn mixed with water as a cure for the plague. Or if you were fresh out of unicorns (or the virgins you need to catch them), you could always  try chicken butt.

Narges Mohammadi Wins the Nobel Peace Prize on Behalf of Millions of Iranian Women

October 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize. (Wikimedia Commons)

Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state.

The Supreme Court Is Privileging Christians Ahead of Others’ Dignity

October 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Supporters of web designer Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2022.

On issues where the Christian right’s First Amendment claims directly threaten the equal citizenship of sexual minorities, the court leaves no question about which side it’s on, privileging Christians over all others.

If You Think the House Is Fractured, Look at America

October 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Kevin McCarthy, just before he was ousted as speaker of the House.

The House of Representatives did something that had never been done before in the nation’s history: It ousted the speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, lost his job in a vote of 216 to 210. Charles R. Hunt of Boise State University’s School of Public Servic offers a sense of what this historic development might mean for the government at the moment, as well as for American democracy over the longer term.

Where the Supreme Court Stands on Banning Books

October 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a newer case, the lower courts will look to existing precedent, set in a legal ruling that dates back to 1982. In that ruling, the court declared that school personnel have a lot of discretion related to the content of their libraries, but this “discretion may not be exercised in a narrowly partisan or political manner.”

The Covid Vaccine Wins the Nobel in Medicine

October 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A notorious Flagler County anti-vaxxer. (© FlaglerLive)

The Covid vaccines would not have been possible it if weren’t for the pioneering work of this year’s winners of the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine decades earlier: Dr Katalin Karikó and Dr Drew Weissman, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, for their discoveries into mRNA biology. The pair were the first to discover a way of modifying mRNA that allowed it to successfully be delivered to cells and replicated by them.

Food Poisoning: What and Where to Never Eat

October 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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An estimated 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases every year. A microbiologist outlines what to look for and what to avoid to not end up poisoned.

DeSantis Solution to Climate Change: Burn More Fossil Fuels

October 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The last two weeks' erosion just north of the Flagler Beach pier. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis traveled to Texas last week to stand in front of a couple of noisy oil wells and a friendly crowd of oil field workers to issue a clarion call for coping with climate change by burning more fossil fuels. He pledged to make it easier for oil industry to drill and said he would replace references to “climate change” with “energy dominance.”

When Sisco Deen Reconnected Descendants to the Local Legacies of General Hernández, Bings and MalaCompra

October 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sisco Deen, standing, with descendants of Gen. Hernandez, at the MalaCompra archeological site. (Flagler County Historical Society)

The late Sisco Deen and his wife Gloria played a central role in exhuming history and reconnecting descendants and state historians with the local legacy of General Joseph Hernández, who owned a plantation residence in what became Bings Landing Park and was the first Hispanic in Congress.

Remembering Lucy Morgan, Florida’s Most Feared Journalist

October 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lucy Morgan in her days as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. (Florida Memory)

When Lucy Morgan started out, female reporters were usually confined to the food and style pages. She was the machete clearing the trail for many women in Florida, not the first pioneering newspaperwoman but surely the most significant. Causing trouble — for the powerful, at least — was her job, and she mentored generations of journalists.

America’s Way Too-Senior Moments

September 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The world’s oldest democracy currently has its oldest-ever Congress. President Joe Biden (80 years old) is also the oldest US president in history. His leading rival in the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump, is not far behind at 77. They’re both older than 96% of the US population. Ron DeSantis thinks the founders would have had a maximum age limits on elected officials if they “could look at this again.” But why didn’t they?

France’s Wrong-Headed Ban of the Abaya in Public Schools

September 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Residents watch French air force jets fly over a Paris suburb during the Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2023.

Many critics argue that the abaya is a cultural garment, not a religious one, and should be allowed under laïcité. In practice, though, anything associated with Muslim cultures tends to be considered “religious.” Catholic traditions, meanwhile, are often considered “cultural” – and therefore compatible with laïcité.

Academic Freedom Greatly Bothers the GOP

September 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A post-graduation picnic at Grinnell College, an oasis of academic freedom. (© FlaglerLive)

The last few years have witnessed a number of disturbing and blunt challenges to academic freedom, mostly from right-wing legislators in GOP-controlled state legislatures. For a sizable segment of the Republican party, so-called “divisive concepts” represent the belief by historians that the institutions of the United States were established to maintain racial and gender hierarchies in addition to maintaining the supremacy of White Americans.

GOP’s Shutdown Threat Is the Wrong Way to Win a Budget War

September 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Past as prologue: October could bring yet another government shutdown.

History shows that shutdowns are counterproductive – at least as measured by their own defenders’ goals. Fortunately, the past also provides a proven way to reduce the deficit, a laudable goal. But now is the wrong time for Republicans to take a stand on reducing the deficit, not least because shutdowns don’t get results.

How the Federal Government Shutdown Would Affect You

September 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

In 2018 the Statue of Liberty's Liberty Island was still accessible to tourists thanks to money from New York State. It isn;t clear whether the same will be true this time, should government shut down. (© FlaglerLive)

The U.S. is moving toward a government shutdown. Whether delayed business loans, slower mortgage applications, curtailed food assistance or postponed food inspections, the effects could be substantial.

The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Reconvenes. Beware.

September 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Supreme Court begins its new term on Oct. 2, 2023.

On Oct. 2, 2023, the court will meet after the summer recess, with the biggest case of the term focused on the limits of individual gun rights. The other core issue for the coming year is a broad reassessment of the power of the administrative state. Both issues reflect a court that has announced revolutionary changes in doctrine and must now grapple with how far the new principles will reach.

Traditional Downtowns Are Dying. What Next?

September 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A sign advertises retail spaces for lease at Union Square in San Francisco on June 21, 2023.

Across North America, downtowns are recovering from the pandemic more slowly than other urban areas and that “older, denser downtowns reliant on professional or tech workers and located within large metros” are struggling the hardest. The shuttering of a Whole Foods market after only a year in downtown San Francisco in May 2023 received widespread coverage.

Time to Stop Using Individuality-Obliterating Acronyms Like BIPOC

September 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

French colonial cops in all their gore. (NYPL Digital Collection)

BIPOC is an acronym for “Black, Indigenous and People of Color,” and has become increasingly popular in recent years. The acronym came about as a way to address the erasure of Black and Indigenous Peoples and center their unique struggles while promoting solidarity. But BIPOC amalgamates distinct experiences of racism and colonialism and misses those that do not fit within one category, like individuals of mixed ancestry.

Don’t Blame Us Seniors for the Affordability Crisis. Blame Developers.

September 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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A Hammock resident rejects the claim that Palm Coast’s and Flagler County’s seniors “contribute least” as they buy up homes, or that they are to blame for the housing affordability crisis. Rather, developers convince your fearless leaders that they cannot make any money unless they cram in as many houses on a property as possible. They convince commissioners to change zoning frequently, for profit.

How Biases Against Black-Sounding First Names Lead to Job Discrimination

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

What role will race play in determining who gets the job?

A hiring experiment found that participants systematically discriminated against job candidates with names they associated with Black people, especially when put under time pressure. It also found that white people who oppose affirmative action discriminated more than other people against job candidates with distinctly Black names, whether or not they had to make rushed decisions.

College Football Reflects America As it Really Is: Indefensible In a Civilized World

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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It’s college football season in Florida and you know what that means: trash talking, martial metaphors, peculiar rituals involving animals, bizarre clothing in colors not found in nature, bad grammar, mansplaining, and racism. College football reinforces some of our least attractive stereotypes — those Black kids sure are fast! — and extreme gender roles, as well: huge dudes on the field knocking the living hell out of each other, while small (though quite athletic) women with incongruously large bows in their hair cheer them on.

Green Growth Is Losing Traction. De-Growth Is Not.

September 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The idea of “green growth” is appealing, but it is losing appeal among climate policy researchers.. (© FlaglerLive)

The “degrowth” school of thought proposes a planned reduction in material consumption in affluent nations to achieve more sustainable and equitable societies. Meanwhile, supporters of “agrowth” adopt a neutral view of economic growth, focusing on achieving sustainability irrespective of GDP fluctuations. Essentially, both positions represent scepticism toward the predominant “green growth” paradigm with degrowth representing a more critical view.

Rupert Murdoch’s Legacy of Lies and Little Accountability: A Round-Up

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Rupert Murdoch attends the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscars

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox meant that so-called journalists could lie with near total impunity, but Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems was a win for all media.

At Root of Palm Coast’s Affordable Housing Crisis: We Got Our Own. Screw the Rest. 

September 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 92 Comments

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We have a housing crisis in Palm Coast. Too few houses, too few apartments, discriminatory zoning and homesteading laws that make the problem worse. We who live in our sprawling, property-tax-sheltered single-family houses not only see these laws as entitlements. We want the door to more development closed behind us. We got our own. Screw the rest. So just when we need it most, affordable housing is becoming a dirty word.

How Local Law Enforcement Could Help Prevent Another Jan. 6-Style Insurrection

September 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, at left, and group member Joe Biggs were sentenced to many years in federal prison. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

If police had treated Proud Boys as members of a street gang from the group’s inception in 2016, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, might have been avoided, or at least reduced in severity. Instead, police continues to mistakenly focus on the belief that, like terrorist groups, white supremacists are coordinated in ideology and intent. Evidence shows that perception actually diverts local police agencies’ attention from identifying and managing these groups.

Moms for Liberty: Joyful Warriors or Anti-Government Conspiracists?

September 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Signs in the hallway during the inaugural Moms For Liberty Summit on July 15, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

The mothers group dominating media attention is Moms for Liberty, self-described “joyful warriors … stok[ing] the fires of liberty” with the slogan “We Don’t Co-Parent with the Government.” Others see them as well-organized, publicity-savvy anti-government conspiracists.

We Gave $7,500 to Homeless People. Here’s What Happened Next.

September 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Cash transfers can help people find suitable accommodations and save governments money. (Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash)

Present approaches to staving off homelessness are failing, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of people experiencing homelessness. Relying on short-term shelters has been shown to be more expensive than providing stable housing. It is therefore imperative to try something else. Cash transfers represent a dignified way to empower people to escape homelessness.

‘Savannah Asked Me To Never Be Silent.’ A Survivor of Brenan Hill’s Violence Speaks.

September 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Brenan Hill was convicted on Friday for the murder of Savannah Gonzalez, 22. Shanell Torchia was a previous victim of Hill’s violence, and the mother of his child: he was a fugitive from justice, and the charges she had filed, when he shot Gonzalez. Torchia speaks out about her experience, her friendship with Savannah, and the dangerous leeway granted abusers.

The Hunter Biden Stain

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

President Joe Biden and family after he was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2021.

As Hunter Biden’s legal peril rises, with all its ensuing political complications, people have rediscovered the likes of Ulysses Grant Jr., Alice Roosevelt and Neil Bush, as if the best way to make sense of Hunter Biden is found in a rogues’ gallery of difficult presidential relatives.

Crazy and Cruel Sell Well in Florida. So Scott Is Running Again.

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Rick Scott issues a manifesto. (© FlaglerLive)

In response to the NAACP, the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign warnings that travel to Florida could be hazardous to people of color, LGBTQ people, or people who just believe in decency and tolerance, Scott posted a huffy hunk of mansplaining on that X-thing that everyone still calls Twitter, warning “socialists and communists” and suchlike to stay out of Florida.

Understanding Autoworkers’ Historic Strike

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

United Auto Workers members rally after marching in the Detroit Labor Day Parade on Sept. 4, 2023.

The autoworkers’ union is seeking higher pay, better benefits and assurances that large numbers of its members will work in the automakers’ growing number of electric-vehicle factories. Here’s how success or failure will be defined for the UAW, and why the strike is historically significant.

Florida Under DeSantis Is Ground Zero of Voter Disenfranchisement

September 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

If you can. (Derek Bridges via Flickr)

DeSantis and the malleable Florida Legislature have cracked down on political protest, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ community, and women and trans men who might need abortions, among others. In elections litigation alone, the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition sued the state in federal court in Miami alleging the state has erected barriers to felons hoping to regain their voting rights under 2018’s Amendment 4, which the organization sponsored.

Alas, No Extraterrestrials, NASA Says

September 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

In Nevada, where extraterrestrial dreams can still come true. (© FlaglerLive)

NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs today. Bottom line: The study team found no evidence that reported unidentified anomalous phenomena observations are extraterrestrial. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson wants to shift the UFO conversation from sensationalism to one of science.

Sustainable Tourism Depends on Locals’ Help

September 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Making sustainable that which has not been designed as such (a destination, a resort, a mode of transport, etc.) is not easy, fast or affordable. This is especially true since, rather than conforming to standards, labels or certifications, we must change our relationship with the environment in order to be sustainable, rather than just appearing to be so.

The Unpredictability of Earthquakes

September 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Seismologists monitor the Earth’s activity, but they can’t predict a day, time and place for the next ‘big one.’ Christian Miranda/AFP via Getty Images

Almost like aftershocks, questions about earthquake prediction tend to follow disasters like the one that occurred Sept. 8, 2023, in Morocco. Could advance notice have prevented some of the devastation? Unfortunately, useful predictions are still in the realm of science fiction.

An Even Application of Justice Would Be Appreciated

September 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

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We need, for example, to believe that someone who is rioting in the streets of Philadelphia, smashing store windows and stealing flat-screen TVs under the guise of social justice, is going to be charged with a crime. We are not asking that they receive 17-year prison sentences. We are not asking that they be kept in solitary confinement. We are not calling them traitors to the state. We just want them to, at the very least, have a criminal record that can later be expunged if they stop acting like vandals.

No Evidence of Wrongdoing, But GOP Launches Impeach Biden Spectacle Anyway

September 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

Tropical Storm Kevin looms. (White House)

GOP-led congressional inquiries of presidential son Hunter Biden’s records to date have not shown any foreign payment to his father, Joe Biden, or any other evidence of wrongdoing. But yielding to pressure from hard-line members of the GOP House caucus, U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today directed the top Republicans in Congress to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Managers’ Attempts to Empower Their Employees Often Fail

September 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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When companies design and implement empowering leadership initiatives, they often overlook key factors that are necessary for empowerment to work. Their efforts to empower employees often result in little impact or are entirely ineffective. In fact, they can even lead employees to engage in unethical behavior.

Rebuilding Ground Zero: How Lower Manhattan Was Reshaped

September 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Oculus in Loer Manhattan, near Ground Zero. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

The destruction of the massive complex created a rare opportunity for New York City to rethink its long-term economic needs in the downtown area, while sending a message to the world that regardless of whatever al-Qaida terrorists aimed to do, New York City would come back stronger than ever. It was an unparalleled opportunity in the city’s history that otherwise would not have happened.

Do Unbiased Jurors Exist for Trump’s Trials?

September 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Finding unbiased jurors in the pre-digital age, even in high-profile cases, was challenging but nothing like today. Once chosen, jurors needed to maintain that unbiased status and were told not to discuss the case with anyone and to avoid radio, television and newspapers. If the case involved the death penalty, jurors might be sequestered. Today, that same approach won’t work.

Nikki Haley’s Fascist-Flirting Flip-Flops

September 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Haley won pundit praise for her recent GOP debate performance – at times she sounded saner and smarter than some of her rivals (an admittedly low bar). But then she hit the wall. She described Inmate #P01135809 as “the most disliked politician in America,” someone who would not be electable in 2024 – but she signaled, by raising her hand, that she’d still support Trump as the party’s nominee, even if he were criminally convicted prior to the election.

Even A Great Superintendent Can’t Fix a Clueless School Board

September 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Clueless, the sequel. (© FlaglerLive)

If you think the appointment of LaShakia Moore as superintendent will make a difference, think again. Moore’s biggest job will be to run interference to save what’s left of this district from the Huns, because the problem was never with the administration or the ranks. It’s with the majority of a board that doesn’t know its role, doesn’t know its limits, and doesn’t know education from flip-flops. 

Beyond Corals, Marine Heatwaves Cause Chaos on the Seafloor

September 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Over 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases has gone into our oceans. (NOAA)

Over 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases has gone into our oceans. So it’s no surprise marine heatwaves are getting much more intense and more frequent. This year has been off the charts. From April this year, the world’s average ocean temperature has been the highest ever recorded.

America’s Long Road to Meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

September 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Many colonias along the Texas-Mexico border still lack basic infrastructure, including running water.

A strong economy isn’t possible without a society peaceful enough to support investment and well-functioning markets, or without water and air clean enough to support life and productivity. This understanding – that economic, social and environmental well-being are intertwined – is the premise of sustainable development.

The Long History of Politicians Silencing Elected Black Officials

September 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks to reporters in Atlanta on Aug. 14, 2023.

Some Republican lawmakers in Georgia are targeting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Black Democrat representing a majority Black district, for removal from office. These efforts come in the midst of Willis’ investigation and prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 others for their alleged conspiracy to overturn results of the state’s 2020 presidential election.

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