If you’re interested in architecture and have ever considered the role architectural design plays in advancing a progressive social agenda, now is the time
Author: Renee Shur
Beefing up the facts on global warming
In a shameless demonstration of feigned ignorance and pandering, some climate-change denying Republicans, like Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, and Speaker John Boehner, have
Corporate advertising on the school bus and in your kid’s backpack
Here’s a riddle: What’s big, bright, and yellow, rides on four wheels, and markets junk food to kids five days a week? If you
This is your representative on guns
It’s been just over two months since twenty children and six adults were brutally gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then thirty-three
A healthy dose of good government: Flu shots at the pharmacy
One afternoon last week, I walked into the pharmacy in my local supermarket. Twenty minutes later, I left after receiving a needle’s worth of
Playing chicken with the debt ceiling: So dangerous, even Reagan wouldn’t go there
$18.9 billion. That’s what the 2011 debt-limit standoff and the threatened U.S. credit default will be costing taxpayers in higher interest payments over the
Gun lobby pushes silencers “to protect children’s hearing”
How many more loved ones will become victims of gun violence before we’re angry enough to turn off the television, put aside our laptops
Nate Silver: 2012 (Data)person of the year
It’s official. Time magazine recently anointed Barack Obama as the 2012 Person of the Year. With all due respect to the editors of Time—and
Peace X Peace: Raising women’s voices, building cultures of peace
Switch off MSNBC. Toss the New York Times in the recycling bin and suppress the temptation to sample the blogs. If you crave more
Lame duck imperative: Violence Against Women Act set to expire at end of December
Time is running out on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Set to expire at the end of December, VAWA might become the second