Category: Current events
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Not Your Grandfather’s GOP
One thing that gets lost in the 24-hr news cycle of political reporting is a longer view of political developments—not just for today, this week, or this election cycle, but over a span of decades. One of the most significant political developments over the past half century has been the…
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Post-election: The challenge for progressive populism
The elections of last Tuesday were reportedly very bad for progressives. And in many ways they were. But in some ways, they could serve as a catalyst for something great. The question is: Which way forward from here? After a major progressive mobilization helped bring Obama into the White House…
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Posts elsewhere (w/ great links!)
I’ve neglected my own blog a bit as I’ve been posting to the Eat the State! blog lately. As we wait to see how deeply The Crazy has infected the American electorate, here are a couple things I posted at ETS! in October with a few awesome video links reflecting…
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The Rules Are No Game: Time to End Corporate Rule
Anthony Wilden, with whom I studied communication theory and systems theory in college, wrote a book called The Rules Are No Game. The phrase has long stuck with me as a terse encapsulation of the idea that all systems—from computer operating systems to sporting events to political systems—operate according to…
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Something Rotten in Denmark? Looking Back at Copenhagen & Looking Forward to the Future
How you assess the outcome of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC), held in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18, depends on whether you see the glass 95 percent empty or 5 percent full. And how you feel about that extremely modest progress in relation to the planet-wide urgency of the climate…
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This Week’s Climate Report…
COP15: Of course, the biggest climate news is currently coming from Copenhagen, & some of the best reporting from Copenhagen is coming from Democracy Now!, the only independent news show reporting daily from Copenhagen. As might be expected, some of the biggest rifts so far in Copenhagen have been around…
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