Tag: politics

16 May

Can We Stop The Tide?

Don’t celebrate the Senate’s repudiation of media consolidation quite yet

14 May

Can Ug99 Speak?

Exploring the environmental factors behind the Egyptian food crisis

13 May

Of The People

For the United States to truly call itself a democracy, all citizens must be able to vote

08 May

The Facebook General Strike

How effective of an activist organizing tool did Facebook prove during the Egyptian strike?

10 Apr

Why We Should Boycott the Olympics

(Or at least the opening ceremony.) The Beijing Olympics provides a rare moment of consideration for China’s human rights abuses

02 Apr

The Aventine Redux

A current lack of educational resources is leading to the bloating of our prison system. Resisting the School to Prison Pipeline.

26 Mar

The Biology of Capitalism: Scarcity, Poverty and Population (Part 2)

Malthus and the creation of Private Property

25 Mar

Sins 2.0, and Bill Richardson’s Beard

The Vatican rolled out a new line of Seven Deadly Sins. Leland breaks ‘em down for you

21 Mar

The Biology of Capitalism: Scarcity, Poverty and Population (Part 1)

We have been taught that capitalism is rooted in natural selection, but that’s only one way of reading Darwin’s theories

20 Mar

The Anti-War Movement’s Image Problem

What the antiwar movement needs is a common vision that threads the voices and factions together to effect change.

19 Mar

Don’t Mention The War: Afghan Follies

A closer look at the Afghanistan adventures our President missed out on this past week

18 Mar

WEEK IN REVIEW: Reality’s Checked Out

After a week like this–adventurous presidents, bullish bailouts and National Guard power ballads–maybe a reality check is what America’s yearning for

13 Mar

Don’t Mention The War: March 13, 2008

America is still at war. We have to do more than talk and sign online petitions to nowhere.

13 Mar

Take Back the Mini-Skirt

Just as the “Night” must be taken back, so must the mini skirt be worn.

12 Mar

The More Monster, The Better

Why Washington DC should get nastier, not nicer

07 Mar

For Eve

Remembering Eve Carson and the message it should send to Washington

06 Mar

Yes He Can

Barack Obama’s brand of unifying change finds him cozying up to conservative interests

29 Feb

The Engineer Who Refused

An interview with engineer Paul Cottle, who risked his career to oppose the US Military-Industrial complex

28 Feb

Making the Best of Nader’s Run

Progressive whipping boy Ralph Nader still poses a threat to corporate Democrats

21 Feb

The Politics of Vegetarianism

The inconvenient truth about meat consumption.

20 Feb

Progressive Imperatives

As biology comes to dominate the political debate, progressives must reconsider our understanding of natural selection.

13 Feb

The (un)Democratic Party

Why does the Democratic Party continue using the undemocratic superdelegate system?

05 Feb

Democrats for Mitt

Why Democrats voted for GOP buffoon Mitt Romney.

30 Jan

Getting Physicists to Invest in Caring, Not Killing: Who Takes Responsibility?

A physicist urges for peace-minded political involvement in the sciences.

15 Jan

The Locavore’s Dilemma

As many conscious shoppers embrace the locavore lifestyle, are we leaving behind those not privileged to live in our geographic area?

11 Jan

Beef With Barack

Despite the hype, there’s plenty to be skeptical of the GQ candidate.

04 Jan

Four Tedious Online Arguments To Abandon in 2008

French poet French Valery famously said, “everything changes but the avant-garde.” The same could be said of the recurring pet arguments online.

29 Nov

Cheney’s War Against the Constitution

A new Frontline documentary examines the Administration’s shocking redefinition of Presidential power through a stunning narrative.