One point that many on the social justice side of the climate change issue repeat over and over is that the impacts of climate change are going to be felt primarily by the world's poor. The wealthy will be able to move to the last...
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Shorter Republican Party: Anti-immigration policies cannot fail, they can only be failed.
Anyone who wants to watch my appearance on CSPAN's BookTV, you can do here at the link. I don't think it goes away, but it might at some point. So.
This weekend, the NYT ran an interesting article by a former waiter at one of New York's Michelin three-star restaurants, who is now a graduate student: In a playground for the superrich, I was an overpaid chaperone wearing a bespoke suit. Gluttony was common. So...
Joe Thomas is the latest player to go after the NFL's reprehensible commissioner over Ballghazi: Joe Thomas does not think the punishment fits the crime in the Deflategate saga. "I.
On the handful of times I've used BART to get somewhere besides the urban core, I've been dismayed by the land use choices at some of the outer stations--extremely valuable.
Hey, when he's right, he's right! Are we sure the GOP isn't on course to nominating their very own Dukakis? Are we confident one of the current field is up to the job of winning—and governing? No. No we certainly are not. Now, from this...
Ask and you shall receive.
Quick reminder that my CSPAN2 BookTV appearance is this evening at 7:45 pm eastern time so DVR it or whatever you do. Or you can watch it on the website.
What I'm reading lately, public transit edition: Jarrett Walker has a thoughtful, inconclusive post on the issue of transit agency integration (reflecting on the excellent SPUR report on Bay are transit). Like Walker, when I first encountered and tried to use transit in regions with...
GamerGate was a months-long distraction for me. As.
Birmingham, Alabama is 73 percent African-American and of course a history of some of the nation's most notorious racial violence. The Birmingham News now has 0 black reporters.