The Good Corporation
In the oft-forgotten 1993 hit The Good Son, Macaulay Culkin stars as Henry Evans, a bright-eyed 12-year-old evildoer prone to torturing animals, orchestrating highway pileups, and luring his younger sister out onto to thin ice. In the end…
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The Face of Drones
From a Western point of view, the recent use of drones to supplace human soldiers fighting terrorist groups in the Middle East induces nothing but relief. Their soldiers aren’t going to fight. When you spin drone warfare on its head,…
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Blog Post Nora Loretto: Activism and Parenting
What we often forget about activists is that they often have other responsibilities as well, another life, many in fact are parents. Their arduous days of fighting for social justice do not finish when they go home but often continue late…
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Post-Caucus Complications (and a Bernie Bros Rant)
We all knew that the Iowa Caucuses would be important, but did any of us expect this much drama from Iowa? Land of corn and happy pigs? February 1st marked an important step towards the finish line, albeit still a far-away finish line.…
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Band-Aid Solutions or Long-Term Prevention: The Dilemma of the Zika Virus
On January 25, the government of El Salvador issued a warning to its citizens, urging women to not get pregnant until 2018, in the face of rising Zika virus infections.
This is the latest in a number of measures that have been undertaken…
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To Speak or Not to Speak: The Issue of the Freedom to Free Speech
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”…
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The SDGs Offer More Than Just a Great Personality
September 25, 2015 marked the launch of the seventeen internationally adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals. Replacing the eight recently expired Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs seek to continue and enhance initiatives towards…
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Koch Money: Where Did it Come From, Where Did it Go?
In 2010 Jane Mayer wrote an article in the New Yorker about Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers and owners of Koch Industries who, by creating an expansive network of SuperPAC’s and nonprofits, have become the shameless…
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The Tax Code: A Trial by Tampon
The issue of the "tampon tax" has gained prominence over the past year. A Change.org petition started by Cosmopolitan magazine gathered nearly 44,000 signatures, while a similar petition in Europe has over 312,000 supporters. Last year,…
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Bernie – A Candidate for the Working People
Tonight, Americans, Democrat and Republican, will get a better idea of who will represent them come November as Iowans go to the polls to pick who their preferred candidate will be for President of the United States. For the Democrats, it…
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