Climate Desk presents an interesting exploration of internet trolls and their impact on perception. For those unfamiliar with Climate Desk, according to their website, The Climate Desk is a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are The Atlantic, Center for Investigative Reporting, The Guardian, Grist, The […]
Tuesday, the White House issued a surprising U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change detailing a plan for the U.S. to partner with China on what Mother Jones describes as a “wide-ranging package of plans to fight climate change, including new targets to reduce carbon pollution.” Mother Jones goes on to note that this “wide-ranging climate […]
Russell Brand made his name as a provocateur, but recently his voice of dissent has grown louder and louder, threatening to drown out the clownish image he spent a decade building. Nowadays, the radical raconteur is as well known for gunning down US news reporters and setting the world to rights on his news commentary […]
The election was exactly one week ago and I am still in shock. How could this happen? There are so many reasons why the midterms were a disaster for the country that I almost don’t even know where to begin. I thought this video was a good place. For reasons nobody understands, Fox News decided […]
Teachers are speaking out against school reforms they feel are demeaning or make it impossible to do the job they were hired to do. This is a resignation letter from an educator, Gerald J. Conti, a social studies teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York. This letter originally appeared in the Washington […]