Lamentations and Next Steps in Trumplandia
The weather in New York on the morning of November 9th was gloomy, just like the political mood. Despite numerous reassurances to the contrary, many people’s worst nightmare had just come true. Donald...
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Future Earth – Good Anthropocene
For anyone following the emergence of the Anthropocene within the social sciences and, increasingly, environmental policy circles, this Future Earth webinar provides a good sense of how these ideas about the Anthropocene are evolving and emerging in the context of social-ecological transformation thinking and research.
We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change | New Republic
In the North this summer, a devastating offensive is underway. Enemy forces have seized huge swaths of territory; with each passing week, another 22,000 square miles of Arctic ice disappears. Experts dispatched to...
Reflections on the Left Turn in Latin America
For those interested in LA politics and social movements, Jon Beasley-Murray has an interesting analysis piece in the latest Alternautus: Pyrrhic Victories: The Fall and Rise of the Left Turns. While I don’t...
Greenpoint Dayz
Outside there is an aging man, likely in his mid 60s. Two other women are with him. They are all in the backyard tending to the lawn. Perfectly groomed with a rose trellis....
The Blindness of Political Science and the Rise of Trump
I ran across this excellent post at Vox asking scholar Norman Ornstein why he pegged the Trump rise while most other political scientists simply dismissed the rise of Trump as an impossibility. I...
