In this concise 7-minute clip John Green offers the clearest, most intelligent explanation I’ve seen of Trump’s controversial immigration order. He also calmly details his concerns without resorting to any extremes of rhetoric and name-calling. Link: https://youtu.be/sJYTj-VI_L8 (For more on … Continue reading
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Novelist and blogger John Green muses about out how far back “back” goes in a vlog post that manages to inspire a fair mount of awe in just 3 minutes and 42 seconds: Link: https://youtu.be/qxfD1DhqBiA The time spans he mentions … Continue reading
Two videos from back in September have renewed relevance because U.S. policy is about to change soon based on irrational fear. First Stephen Colbert addresses the fear in 3.5 minutes, then John Oliver goes into a little more detail in … Continue reading
A couple of months ago John Green posted another good short video about Syrian refugees that’s worth four minutes of your time. Syrians in general aren’t all that different from middle class families in Europe or the United States. The … Continue reading
In the following very short video American writer John Green shows a little of what life is like for young people in the Zaatri refugee camp on an arid plain in northern Jordan near the Syrian border. The camp was … Continue reading
Brothers Hank and John Green talk succinctly and intelligently about the tax proposals of the remaining major-party presidential candidates. Follow the links below the videos to other information sources. First Democrats Clinton and Sanders: Link: https://youtu.be/Ml5RFrVzArk Then Republicans Trump and … Continue reading
In the summer of last year some news media took note of a sharp increase in murders in some major cities, such as Baltimore and Houston, since the start of the year, and they suggested crime was on the rise … Continue reading
In this brief clip novelist John Green points out yet another way in which the world is better and offers some thoughts (prompted by Bill Gates) on the importance of free time and (preferably less polluting) sources of energy. It’s … Continue reading
Neighboring countries have taken in a few million refugees from the Syrian civil war. Another several hundred thousand have fled into Europe. Canada proposes to take in 25,000, and President Obama is planning to allow 10,000 more into the United … Continue reading
A few days ago I posted a four-minute video from John Green talking about the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious proposal from the year 2000 to address a number of major world problems in just 15 years. You might … Continue reading