A thriller about public relations? And for teens? It sounds improbable, and The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi is an improbably terrific book. Marrying a somersaulting plot with heart-pounding suspense…
During the course of a campaign, its always good to prove your center right creds by kicking a few hippies https://t.co/Wdw5WNH7Ts — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) September 27, 2015
image taken from despair.com’s latest t-shirt Before we get to this message’s main event, I’ll throw another brief shoutout to Pope Francis. Sure, he leads one of the world’s socially…
In the United States today, 22% of all children live in poverty. And that’s a very grudging figure for an even worse situation because poverty is defined as having less…
Man, this sucks.
Just how Tea Party does a Republican have to be now to get elected? In North Carolina, Repug representative Renee Ellmers won office five years ago by defeating an incumbent…
How awesome is this! The Love Song Project: “A song with the power to fight climate change and maybe even change the world.” Some of the biggest names in music…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jennifer Wells writes about the drastic difference in pay between CEOs and everybody else. And Henry Farrell interviews Lauren Rivera about the…
Yes, I really said that. Yes, I was going to try. Until Lisa and Emma started yelling at me, that is. Check out our new friends on the Klondike Highway.…
Paul Barber offers a rundown of the problems with an overreliance on polls, while Heather Libby goes further and suggests that we ignore national polls altogether. But I’ll follow up…
To start his US tour, the Pope stated that “climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care…
Volkswagen officials knew, at least as far back as 2011, that their diesel engine emissions software was rigged. A Volkswagen engineer warned the company about cheating over its emission tests…
The length, sure. The outcome, of course. All of that is important. But Election 42 will be remembered for one thing most of all: the record number of shitty candidates.…
There are now just three weeks to go before the election that will decide the fate of Canada, and we find out whether it will live or die. And it's…
Any political apparatchik has to handle his or her share of losses. You can keep winning for a while and then you have to take one on the chin. It…
I’m heading to Toronto this morning for Word On The Street, the annual celebration of the written word that is always a worthwhile experience. At noon, I am hoping to…
It is all but impossible to cover all the things that the Harper Regime has done to diminish our democratic institutions or the contempt that he has shown for democratic…
https://www.pinterest.com/ It’s not easy to tell the truth — particularly when people don’t want to hear it. Linda McQuaig caused something of a political firestorm awhile back for suggesting that…
