Apocalypse in the City of Angels: What Might Have Been So Different
If only the city of Los Angeles had invested more to protect its Angelenos, the enormous destruction from the Los Angeles fires perhaps could have been considerably smaller. The LA fires have claimed twenty-nine lives, including an amputee father and his son with cerebral palsy, both of whom died in their home waiting for an […]
Back to Plastic: Trump Announces US Policy ‘to End the Use of Paper Straws’
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday declaring that it is “the policy of the United States to end the use of paper straws.” Former President Joe Biden’s administration, in an attempt to phase out federal purchases of single-use plastics, announced a plan in July 2024 to replace plastics with reusable, compostable and highly […]
From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung
Woo Chong Yung 吳仲熊 (1898–1989), also known in the United States as C.Y. Woo, was a highly accomplished painter, calligrapher, and poet from Shanghai. From the 1920s to 1949, Woo was at the center of China’s cultural world, recognized in the art circles of both Shanghai and Beijing. Faced with political persecution in the 1960s, […]