Under Swollen Tides, Venice Says More About Our Future Than Our Past
Venice illustrates how climate change will force a sort of triage upon us, and it won’t be just about our cultural heritage.
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Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like the People of Chile and Lebanon?
Americans are not big on protests, and people abroad are perplexed
Read more...The Joker to Guy Fawkes: Why Protesters Around the World are Wearing the Same Masks
Discussion of role of masks in global protest, as Hong Kong’s mask ban is ruled unconstitutional by High Court.
Read more...Left Twitter Responds With Viral #TooFarLeft Hashtag After Obama Counsels Democrats to Tamp Down Progressive Ambitions
Sampling of tweets responding to counsel to Democrats to sideline left-leaning twitter feeds.
Read more...Do We Actually Grow from Adversity?
Americans in particular like to reframe hardship as an opportunity to grow….but how valid is that notion?
Read more...30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided
Why Eastern Germany is still a place apart.
Read more...The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...The Myth of Shareholder Primacy
A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
Read more...Manufacturing Fear and Loathing, Maximizing Corporate Profits! A Review of Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Matt Taibbi’s must-read new book Hate Inc. describes how the media stokes fake conflicts to prevent consideration of real issues.
Read more...Neoliberalism Tells Us We’re Selfish Souls – How Can We Promote Other Identities?
Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
Read more...NCAA Votes to Allow College Athletes to Benefit from the Use of Their Names, Images, and Likenesses
NCAA bows to the seeming inevitable and votes to allow college athletes to profit from endorsements: or does it? Details to follow…
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 4 of 4: The Empire as Hegemonic “Banana Republic” Ruled by Caudillos
The finale in a short history of the Roman Republic.
Read more...Global Protests Round-Up: Authoritarian Adaptation, Data Gathering, and the Role of Class
A review of the literature on global protests (as in Chile, France, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, and Spain/Catalonia).
Read more...Our Response to the Next Crisis Must Tackle Consumerism
Ideas for taking on consumerism.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 3 of 4: The Final Hammer-Blows
The crisis of the Roman Republic.
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