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Michael Shellenberger

Berkeley

Contributing Writer at Freelance

CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

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Articles

  • 1 day ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger |Alex Gutentag

    Since the end of the Covid pandemic, officials, including former US health official Anthony Fauci, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and teachers’ union head Randi Weingarten, have denied that they played decisive roles in the closure of public schools and insisted that officials made the best decisions given what they knew at the time.

  • 5 days ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger

    Conventional wisdom holds that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should never have started the investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign for alleged ties to Russia. FBI agents with a “predisposition to investigate Trump” initiated the Crossfire Hurricane investigation based on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” concluded the Justice Department’s special counsel John Durham.

  • 6 days ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger

    “What is ‘Asian and Pacific Islander food’?” the American historian Michael Lind asks during our recent podcast. “There are no 'Asian and Pacific Islander' [AAPI] people. Indians do not think they're part of an AAPI category along with Korean Americans and Filipino Americans.”The line is classic Lind: cutting through the pretensions of elite ideology with history and humor.

  • 1 week ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger

    Republicans are doomed to remain a minority party in California for the foreseeable future, say many political analysts. Where 45% of California voters are registered as Democrats, just 25% are Republicans. Democrats hold 75% of the seats in the California legislature and Republicans just 25%. And Democrats hold every single one of California’s eight statewide offices, from the governor to the superintendent of public instruction.

  • 1 week ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger |Ann Coulter

    Journalists and authors, even those with a high profile, often wonder how much impact they are having, and so it makes sense that they put each other down by dismissing their influence. For example, in June 2015, New York magazine’s Annie Lowrey said, “Nobody is paying attention to Ann Coulter,” the conservative author famous for her nationalist critique of mass migration. Lowrey turned out to be spectacularly wrong.

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