By Deni Silberstein Reprinted from The Union with the permission of the author. In a recent Other Voices column, Christian Stewart expressed his opinions about Community Environmental Advocates’ response to Rise Gold’s Centennial cleanup project. CEA spends untold numbers of volunteer hours combing through hundreds of pages of technical documents, teasing out the facts…
“I think this is the first report of a sex difference in lunar cycling,” one scientist told Salon By MATTHEW ROZSA PUBLISHED in Salon NOVEMBER 8, 2021 “Of all the patterns observed from the ghostly visage of Earth’s full moon, many cultures’ folklore identifies the shape of a so-called man in the moon. “Now, a…
Welcome to the American Century Even If It Is a Hell on Earth BY TOM ENGELHARDT Reprinted from TomDispatch.com with permission of the author On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce, in an…
Editor’s Note: I don’t understand how any American could read Ann Jones’ article below without feeling a mixture of sadness, shame and anger. It’s rare for a plain statement of historical facts to bring me so close to tears. [Don] Remembering Forgotten Afghanistan BY ANN JONES Reprinted from TomDispatch.com I know, I know. It’s the last…
Regina Hansen, Boston University Over the past few decades, Halloween celebrations have gained in popularity, not only with children and families, but with all those fascinated with the spooky and scary. As a scholar of myth and religion in popular culture, I look at Halloween with particular interest – especially the ways in which…