Climate disruption, the new reality
Wildfires. Flickr/Jared Yeh. Some rights reserved.In the past week, two events on opposite sides of the Pacific have sharpened awareness of climate change. Moreover, what is happening in Australia and…
Spotify's Data Dump Just Revealed The Hidden Truth About Today's College Students
Back in the technological dark ages when I was a college student, I studied while listening to music playing on a portable CD player. There was no streaming service tracking…
These College Students Are About To See How Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs
Much of the discourse about public education revolves around the idea of teaching kids “21st century skills” and prepping them for the jobs of the future. Well, students at the…
Mogherini’s The European Union in a changing global environment: a discursive space to rethink the world
At the June Summit, which will take place after the UK Referendum, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, will present the results…
Resisting the movement of control
Mayan Priest Sees Conquistadors in Future - Mural in Municipal Council Building, Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.Krystian Woznicki (KW): Movement, embodied or disembodied, unfolds in space and time…
How To Start A Business That Helps Make The World A Better Place
Click:carbon steel gate valvesWhen it comes to running a business in a way that helps people, Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder of Chobani, actually backs up his talk with action. Last…
A Syrian constitution by August: by whom and for whom?
Hassan Ammar/AP/Press Association. All rights reserved.In a joint press conference on 24 March, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, jointly agreed on an approach…
Watch The Mooch Get Grilled By Stephen Colbert
When Anthony Scaramucci (aka “the Mooch”) appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Aug. 14, the interview could have gone one of two ways: Colbert could have found jokey…
The failures of Holland’s pro-immigrant party
"Refugees welcome, Racism is Not" demonstration on February 6, 2016 at Dokwerker square in Amsterdam, Nethelands.Paulo Amorim/Press Association.All rights reserved.The emergence of Denk (Think), the pro-immigrant party, has caused quite the…
Evictions in Greece: dozens of people convicted. Their crime? Solidarity
It has been a bleak summer for democratic freedoms in Greece, as dozens of people have been sentenced under dictatorial laws on account of having occupied abandoned buildings and providing…