Society
TRA: Fake News
Fake News: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2018 (read more)
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Society
A Taste of Dissent
Investigative journalist Abby Martin and the challenge of enquiry (read more)
News
20% of America’s Gassiest Citizens Produce Half Its Diet-Related Gas
20 percent of Americans are responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions (read more)
News
A Whiff of Polonium, Or Smoke and Mirrors?
US economic and militarist aggression is to blame for Russian military posturing. (read more)
Society
Guns, Firearms and (Don’t) Have a Go Heroes
Few among us can predict how they would respond in an eruption of violent, death-delivering madness. Better not to judge. (read more)
News
Donald Trump vs. the US Judiciary
As federal courts openly clash with the Trump Presidency, what now for the Founding Fathers’ vision of a limited judiciary? (read more)
Society
Charting the Rustpiles and Ruins of America’s Dream
Tumbleweed and dust, neon and rust. Of such are mythologies made. (read more)
Society
America, Whither Went the Dream?
On the hunt for the spectres of an American dream long departed (read more)
Features
America, What Have You Done?
A photographic journey into America’s lost innocence (read more)
Features
America, Why Did You Stop Dreaming?
Chasing the ghosts of an American Dream (read more)
News
Exclusive Colleges Make For More Inclusive Colleges. Whut?!
Student-led protests for inclusive campuses are more likely at selective universities (read more)
Society
New Puritans, Pearlclutchers and Inquisition by Tweet
Puritans, religious zealots, and demagogues call for protection. Who protects us from them? (read more)
Society
Darkness at the Edge of Town
Mass shootings are a reflection of a culture that used guns to create itself (read more)
News
The Trump Effect: Blaming Liberals for Ecology
Rise of populism affects wildlife management in US (read more)
Society
Is Dubya a Democrat Now? Duopoly, Division and the Dunce
The majority of Democrats now have a positive opinion of war criminal George W. Bush. Why? (read more)
News
Drop and Roll: 3 Million Americans Carry Handguns
Most American gun-carriers are male, and cite protection as their primary reason (read more)
News
Loitered Lens: New Found Glory
South Florida’s New Found Glory drench the Kentish Town Forum with All American Sweat – Photos (read more)
News
War? Famine? A Second Term of Trump? America’s Top Ten Fears
Chapman University releases 4th annual Survey of American Fears (read more)
Society
Mass Shootings Sell More Guns, So Don’t Expect To See Them Stop
Scared of guns? So get a gun! The unstoppable ‘logic’ of the firearm owner (read more)
Society
Hurricanes are Real, Even if You Deny Climate Change
Post-Irma, the desperate pseudoscience of deniers is a cacophony of crazy (read more)
Society
Opportunity Can’t Be Looted
Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine (read more)
Society
Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan Prepares its Killing Grounds… Again
There is no draining the swamp of the collective mind, for the swamp and citizenry are one. (read more)
Art
Monira Al Qadiri: The Craft
Kuwaiti-cana? Exploring gender, politics and petro-cultures at Gasworks (read more)
Society
Flags, Statues, Genocide and the Trash Can of History
If tearing down statues could redress the wrongs of history, why stop at Confederates? (read more)
Society
Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right
In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently (read more)
Society
Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar
The marriage of the high dollar to perpetual war becomes more blatant by the day (read more)
Society
Is Trump Getting Too Big For His (Concrete) Boots?
Elites have no issue with dead Muslims, but they will draw the line at presidential ineptitude (read more)
News
Drones, or a Big Dumb Wall? Autonomous Border-Surveillance
ngineers at the University of Arizona are designing an autonomous border-surveillance system that can collect, assess and act on data in real time (read more)
Society
Trump’s Antics Abroad Would be Scary – If He Held the Strings
Novelty Handshakes, Ketchup on Steak – Trump on Tour is Not Where the Power Lies (read more)
News
Take Two of These and Cold Turkey in the Morning: America’s Opiate Crisis
Researchers believe alternative pain management options should be integrated with inpatients, including acupuncture, tai chi and others (read more)