Author: Steven D

Yesterday I posted about the lack of climate change coverage in the US media. In light of that, I can’t think of a bigger, and also more ironic story, than this one: an entire city of 80,000 people, a boom town in the...

Why has the mainstream media continued to ignore the <a href=""http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/03/3774582/record-heat-india/”it’s happening now” climate change crisis during this election...

Many, including President Obama and Hillary Clinton believe that natural gas can be a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future for the world, even if fracking technology is used to extract this resource, so long as we take the...

Literally the other day, I walked into my favorite coffee house, where everyone knows my name (hey, I always tip – that helps), only to learn that one of the baristas who had been on unpaid sick leave for a knee...

In Nashville, Tennessee, it took a white male juror to expose the most insidious form of white privilege that continues to exist – the privilege that in many jurisdictions black defendants are still judged more often than...