What the Frack Does Meme Mean?
Writers are always trying to push the envelope of the languages in which they write. Shakespeare was a famous and shameless creator of new words, which were often so easily understood from the context...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT: Why the Media Ratted Brian Williams Out
In May of 2014, Brian Williams conducted a wide-ranging interview with Edward Snowden eleven months into Snowden’s self-imposed exile in Moscow. At the time, the extensive interview was the scoop of a...
View ArticleAbout the Republication of Mein Kampf
As the executive editor of Tellus News Digest, I often publish stories that I don’t necessarily agree with but, when I do that, I often add a comment of my own to put the story into a different...
View ArticleJournalism the Way it Used to Be
If you want to understand what has happened to the news, the best way to do that is to compare how news used to be produced against how it is produced today. In 2014, renovation workers removed a time...
View ArticlePete Seeger, Folk Music Legend, Dies at 94
Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking folk music legend, passed away at 94 on January 27th, one of the last remaining remnants of the folk music revival movement that led circuitously from early 20th century...
View ArticleFormer Candidate Rick Santorum Damns Marco Rubio with Faint Praise
Marco Rubio may have moved up in the pecking order of potential Republican candidates from wannabe to not inconceivable, but he has been damned with faint praise by recently dropped-out candidate Rick...
View ArticleChina’s ‘Economic Miracle’ is Beginning to Unravel Badly
China has been spending billions of dollars propping up its currency. That might sound odd given Beijing deliberately devalued its currency in August, but it’s another example of Chinese policy makers...
View ArticleTed Cruz Wants His Party to Block Obama’s Supreme Court Pick
Ted Cruz on SCOTUS: “We’re just one justice away…” Saturday’s ninth GOP debate in Greenville, South Carolina got heated, but Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow presidential candidates all seemed to agree on...
View ArticleWhy Mitch McConnell Wants to Block Obama Court Pick
This story was co-published with The New York Times. In early 2009, as Barack Obama was about to take office, Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, assembled his caucus...
View ArticleFL Senate Considering Bill to Ban Local Bans on Fracking
The Florida Senate is sitting on a bill already passed by Florida’s House of Representatives that would effectively usurp the authority of counties, cities and towns, preventing them from regulating...
View ArticleFLA Senate Kills Fracking Bill….For Now
The Florida State Senate Appropriations committee on Thursday voted to reject proposal (SB 318) which would have diverted the authority over mineral rights development from the counties, cities and...
View ArticlePanama Papers: How the Secret World of Offshore Banking Affects You
By now you’ve probably heard of the “Panama Papers,” the name bestowed on a massive database leaked from a law firm based in Panama. The leaked documents show that the company, Mossack Fonseca, helps...
View ArticleIsraeli Police Chief Roni Alscheich Blasts U.S. ‘Mass Incarceration’
Israeli National Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich criticized the high number of United States citizens in prison in a speech Wednesday and said it’s a problem he aims to avoid. The majority of crime...
View ArticlePanama Papers: US Companies Hide $1.4 trillion in Offshore Tax Havens
It’s tax season in the US — and not just because Americans are scrambling to find their W2s and expense receipts before the IRS filing deadline on April 18. Less than two weeks after the Panama Papers,...
View ArticleThis Is the Year of the Angry Voter
It’s Tuesday, and I find myself once again covering the race for the US presidency. I have lost count but I think this is the fourth of fifth Tuesday of election coverage. This isn’t normal. Usually...
View ArticleWhat the DEA Doesn’t Know Could Kill You
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View ArticleAir Pollution Increases Risk of Stillbirth Study Finds
Ambient air pollution is an environmental health problem, both nationally and worldwide. It has been linked to several adverse health outcomes, including lung cancer, acute lower respiratory...
View ArticleCDC Contradicts EPA Water Safety Assurances for Pennsylvania
Since 2009 the people of Dimock, Pennsylvania, have insisted that, as natural gas companies drilled into their hillsides, shaking and fracturing their ground, their water had become undrinkable. It...
View ArticleTsunami In Space To Blame For Third Van Allen Belt
Ross Lockwood, University of Alberta Earth’s magnetosphere, the region of space dominated by Earth’s magnetic field, protects our planet from the harsh battering of the solar wind. Like a protective...
View ArticleJeff Bezos Wants to Rule the World
“The clouds surrounding Amazon.com are thickening,” began the Washington Post article by David Streitfeld on February 21, 2001. In the previous year, stockholders had suddenly learned that the internet...
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