California Drought Pushing West Coast to the Brink
Things just keep heating up in Cali, with no relief in sight. And as things get hotter, the fires grow bigger while the water starts to disappear. And this is just the start...
Things just keep heating up in Cali, with no relief in sight. And as things get hotter, the fires grow bigger while the water starts to disappear. And this is just the start...
The Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) pro-democracy movement has been steadily growing in China, much to the chagrin of mainland Communists, and their pro-business autocracy in Hong Kong. OCLP recently began...
civilization / gender politics / news / political analysis / pop culture / race politics
by chriscrews · Published 05/25/2014 · Last modified 06/19/2017
(Trigger Warning!!! more| Updated) Before I begin, let me frame this piece briefly. I wrote this after spending the Memorial Day weekend trying to unravel the story of Elliot Rodger–his past, his actions,...
economics / environmental politics / news / political analysis / political ecology
by chriscrews · Published 03/27/2014
So as I recently wrote here and in my column in The Free Press, The New School should divest all of its endowment from fossil fuels. Following up on that post, there was...
news / political analysis / pop culture / religion / science
by chriscrews · Published 02/05/2014 · Last modified 03/21/2015
I’m sure there will be plenty of interesting commentary in the coming days about last night’s (Feb 4th) much-hyped public debate between “Evolution” defender Bill Nye (The Science Guy) and “Creation” defender Ken...
economics / news / political analysis / technology
by chriscrews · Published 01/20/2014 · Last modified 03/21/2015
In case you haven’t already heard the news, there was an important legal verdict handed down recently from the US Court of Appeals in DC having to do with net neutrality and broadband...
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