Michael D. Shear of the New York Times examines how popular culture has incorporated the issues that President Obama has faced. Shearer writes: “Five and a half years into his presidency, Mr. Obama has had a powerful impact on the nation’s popular culture. But what many screenwriters, novelists and visual artists have seized on is […]
More than three decades after the accident at Three Mile Island cast a shadow on the atomic dream, is America again ready to give nuclear energy a chance? What is the future of nuclear energy in America? New reactors “have been proposed, encouraged by President Obama, who has described nuclear energy as necessary — along […]
The controversy over Terri Schiavo’s case elevated a family matter into a political battle that continues to frame end-of-life issues today. As the New York Times reports, “For 15 years, Terri Schiavo was effectively a slave — slave to an atrophied brain that made her a prisoner in her body, slave to bitter fighting between […]
A photojournalist who covered last year’s deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh draws connections to New York from clothing labels he found in the rubble. As reported by the New York Times, on April 24, 2013, “Ismail Ferdous photographed the deadliest disaster in garment industry history: the collapse of Rana Plaza in […]
This short documentary follows the lawyer Steven Wise’s effort to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. As the New York Times reports, “In December 2013, the lawyer Steven Wise showed the world how, with a little legal jujitsu, an animal can transition from a thing without rights to a person with […]