Evening Roundup, March 4
Featuring NC's whirlwind primary, Sen. Warner railing against Trump's war, dangerously unregulated AI, sidelined science, The Alabama Solution, why democracy NEEDS women, and the Pod
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War with Iran Is a War of Choice
[VIDEO] As we enter the 5th day of the war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given no indication that the violence will end anytime soon. During a press conference this morning, he said that American forces can deliver “death and destruction all day long.
Why We Fight for Science When Everything Is Going Sideways
Like you, I woke up on Saturday morning to the news of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war in Iran. But I also woke up to a message from my friend about her lab results regarding a diagnosis of her mystery illness, took my second-to-last antibiotic for a sinus infection, and checked my weather app to see if we should take my son to the playground. Thoug…
Socio-political Sphere
Democracy Rises and Falls with Women’s Movements and Mobilization
March marks Women’s History Month, hardly a rote observance this year, not when our lives, our bodily autonomy, and even our ability to cast a ballot in these United States (the threat of the SAVE America Act isn’t dead yet!) are under attack. Democracy rises and falls with women’s movements and mobilization, a linkage we at The Contrarian regularly add…
Culture Corner
The Urgent, Oscar-Nominated Film That Goes Inside the Country's Deadliest Prisons
When Andrew Jarecki starts making a documentary, he rarely knows where the film is going to take him — or even whether he’s making a documentary at all.
Executive Dysfunction
The Silent Starvation of American Science
By Jeff Nesbit
This invisible impoundment of funds is doing exactly what Trump’s sweeping budget cuts to science funding were designed to do, just without the messy public debate.
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Dems' Big Night, GOP's Rough Path Forward
Last night’s elections in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas were on every level a big night for Democrats. They won where they needed to, and they have a shot at flipping a Senate seat in Texas.
Everything from climate change to medical and scientific research must be supported by not only the public but also by our federal government. James Talarico is a T1D and while working in the Texas legislature was able to accomplish a decrease in the cap on insulin prices to $25 a month in TX and import low cost prescription medicine from Canada reducing Rx drug costs for TX patients. We need leaders who are willing to go to bat for the American people. RFK Jr must be removed from HHS before he causes more destruction.