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Voter fraud and manipulation were widespread and barely hidden in the United States of a century ago. Think Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Now not so much. The conservative Heritage Foundation runs a database of “proven instances of voter fraud” from the present back to as far as 1948. They have found 1,384 instances in…

Overall cancer deaths in the US have been declining since the early 1990s, but they declined the most among those for whom the rate has been highest – Black men, according to a government study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The healing field is still not level, as Black Americans still die…

Over the past seven years, China – the world’s largest producer of air pollution – has reduced its total emissions by 40 percent. That reduction amounts to about three quarters of the global reduction in emissions, according to a report by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. China’s air quality is still…

Note that heat waves are still less frequent and less extreme in the US than they were a century ago, according the most recent U.S. National Climate Assessment report. But they have indeed been rising in frequency since the 1960s with no end in sight. Yet heat mortality – the rate of deaths attributed to…

Note that heat waves are still less frequent and less extreme in the US than they were a century ago, according the most recent U.S. National Climate Assessment report. But they have indeed been rising in frequency since the 1960s with no end in sight. Yet heat mortality – the rate of deaths attributed to…