In the farthest regions of the north, the Russians have already drilled, but the Americans are coming. Shell makes preparation to drill. So it is,…
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Updates offer latest on Greece's struggles with Europe, a critique of Buffett on rich vs poor and a hard look at $400 million gift to…
THE Obama administration’s decision to give Shell Oil the go-ahead to drill in the Arctic shows why we may never win the fight against climate…
I had a terrible nightmare: President Mitt Romney approved Shell Oil’s drilling plans for the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. He did it…
Last week’s post on the impending decline and fall of the internet fielded a great many responses. That was no surprise, to be sure; nor…
The mythic role assigned to progress in today’s popular culture has any number of odd effects, but one of the strangest is the blindness to…
“Terms of Service,” the first book from the young cultural critic Jacob Silverman, is less an argument than a tour. Its subject is the Internet—or, more…
Food sovereignty activists are shining a light on a closed-door meeting between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for…
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, a highly visible champion of Seattle’s $15/hour minimum wage, wrote a piece in the Atlantic last month pushing on another front…
SEATTLE—Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the City Council, is up for re-election this year. Since joining the council in January of 2014 she has helped…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times all over again. “Since 2000, 95 percent of new households in King County…
Triumph for Internet Neutrality The Federal Communications Commission last week ruled that the Internet should be regulated like a public utility, with no fast or…