Tag: politics

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›

• ‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers

  September 8, 2019

  CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›

• The Planets, the Stars and Brad Pitt

  September 7, 2019

  LOS ANGELES — “Faster alone, further together,” Brad Pitt murmured. Over his left shoulder hung Mars, reddish-brown and heartbreakingly small, while to his right, the much grander Jupiter was lit… more ›

• Homepage

  September 6, 2019

  Creative Growth Art Center is a studio for artists with disabilities, supporting a multitude of world-renowned artists and bolstering burgeoning talents. The common ground for most artists here is a… more ›

• The Future of Cities

  September 6, 2019

  From developments in skyscraper architecture, green energy and driverless transport to social divides within cities and with nations, manufacturers clinging on in the margins and China starting a new metropolis… more ›

• How are drones shaping the future of war?

  September 3, 2019

  Drones are changing the way militaries around the world conduct their operations. Some militaries prefer drones to sending in jets or using other weapons. https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2019/09/drones-shaping-future-war-190903174428861.html more ›

• A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

  August 29, 2019

  In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at… more ›

• From the Shadows, China’s Communist Party Mobilizes Against Hong Kong Protests

  August 29, 2019

  HONG KONG — Across the border from Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party screams its presence with banners and slogans on nearly every street. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/asia/hong-kong-communist-china.html more ›

• Bitter leaves: tobacco’s devastating global legacy

  August 21, 2019

  “A crop that can be grown in any warm, damp environment, tobacco can be farmed on all the continents except Antarctica. With this accessibility among other forces, the industry is… more ›

• What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery

  August 19, 2019

  If you want to understand American politics in 2019 and the strain of reactionary extremism that has taken over the Republican Party, a good place to start is 2011: the… more ›