June 2021 – Link(s) of the Day

Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are among the unvaccinated, an indication that nearly all deaths could be averted if everyone got the shots

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

Opinion | Dear GOP: MLK had more than one quote, honest

Talking honestly about inequality, it turns out, was a special point of emphasis for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For Indigenous street vendors, offering free meals in L.A. is more than charity

In Los Angeles, Zapotec street vendors organize free weekly cookouts — but it’s done for more than charity.

California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy

The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics.

Lawmaker wants to ban CRT, I asked him what it is

His answers were ... interesting.

Textbook Case of Bad Textbooking

How Moses helped write the Constitution and other things you can learn in high school textbooks in Texas

20 uniquely Canadian insults | Cottage Life

Canadians have a reputation for being the politest people on the planet — that is until someone butts in line at Tim’s. Then we can throw it down with the

Jon Rahm out of Memorial Tournament with COVID midway through record-setting performance

Jon Rahm is a professional golfer, which means that he spends a good amount of his life traveling, a lot of time on airplanes and in hotels and other common areas where a lot of people mass and spread germs.

What HIPAA Isn’t

Word of mouth has turned a narrow health-records law into a supposed health-privacy Bill of Rights.