Tag: Social Science
Ritual, power, and the weekend arena
The roar of a crowd that believes its collective voice matters stands in quiet contrast to spectacles that ask only for attention, passivity, and allegiance.
Learning from history, if we dare
To leverage and learn from humanity’s history regarding what fostered sustainability in the past, we need to know the outcomes.
Six questions for a world that seems to be losing interest...
How do we shape a democratic future living in a zeitgeist that is tightening its grip across the globe?
Why does our skin wrinkle in water?
Mark Changizi’s study offers a scientific and anthropological explanation for a phenomenon many take for granted.
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Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...
Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House...
Pearson campaigned against Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis, and faces Republican state Senator Brent Taylor in November.
Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine
The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.