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Fukushima: From the West Wing
Photo Credit: Foreign Affairs OF THE MOST harrowing stories from last year, the terrible series of events behind the Japanese earthquake that led to a cataclysmic tsunami, which then led to an...
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Village Voice Media’s Kristof Quibble
Photo Credit: Facebook (of Nicholas Kristof) THE NEW YORK TIMES, “The Grey Lady,” as it has become known as the established and serious paper of record *, hasn’t seen much challenge over its roughly...
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Whom Shall Lead the World Bank?
Photo Credit: The Economist THE UNITED STATES and President Obama have their man: an academic, a physician and public policy guy, Jim Yong Kim. Kim is the president of Dartmouth and the chair of...
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The Middle Kingdom’s New Export Focus
Photo Credit: Bloomberg Business Week CHINA has been feeling its oats: They’re a bit impressed with their stature, and they have been flexing their trade muscles as a result of it, for many years....
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The Mental State of This Failed State (And Strategy)
Photo Credit: Dangerroom WAR is not good for the individual or the collective psyche, obviously. So it stands to reason that a nation that has experienced war in its territories for the better part of...
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Draper’s Carousel
IT WAS one of the seminal defining moments of Mad Men and the mysterious Don Draper’s story; a candid look into the character’s genius and history at-once, and this particular Okey-in-the-Big-City...
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Paradigm Shift: Bad Schools Produce Bad Communities?
Photo Credit: The Daily Record IN 2010′s WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN,” a documentary focusing an examining lens on our failing national public school system, there was a new sociological perspective...
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Understanding Keynes’s Expertise in These Dire Times
Photo Credit: The New Yorker PRAISING the ideas of novelist Ayn Rand and her principles of a completely free-market has become a 21st Century Tea-Party and a new-ish political right motif, but it was...
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On ‘The Wire,’ Season 1
DOING THIS six years late, particularly after these recent remarks*, reminds me (somewhat) of, how as a condition of certain behavioral treatments and recovery from addiction, people attempt to...
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Smart Dust
Photo Credit: List 25 ABOUT a decade ago, there was a palpable and growing excitement about the potential of populations of teamed micro-sensors, in the form of dust clouds, being dispersed all over...
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The Roots, ‘Do You Want More?!!!??!’
THE ROOTS’ DO YOU WANT MORE?!!!??! was an epiphany in the consciousness of hip-hop; a quiet-at-first, sophomore slingshot — as opposed to a slump — operating as “something other than.” What “something...
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Kalashnikov Everything; Everywhere
IN its first anniversary issue GOOD — a Los Angeles-based media group focusing on the animating passions of the socially conscious – made an odd editorial decision: They opted to run a cover story...
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A Problem in Covering the Secret War
Photo Credit Defense News I HAVE tangentially spoken about President Obama’s secret drone strikes in Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak), which have only been marginally reported in the traditional media,...
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On Frank Ocean and ‘Channel Orange’
I WROTE HERE briefly about Frank Ocean’s improbable rise from the ranks of obscurity to quick stardom on the strength of his debut alternative R&B mixtape Nostalgia Ultra, his odd circumstance of...
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Debating Dream
Editor’s Note: This post was updated on November 27, to amend a mistake that stated it was solely U.S.A. Basketball’s (U.S.A.B.) decision to include American basketball professionals in international...
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Grimes, ‘Oblivion’
Download: 03%20Oblivion.mp3 “Oblivion,” Grimes I HAVE NO IDEA what genre Grimes falls into, though “Post-Internet” has been bandied by Pitchfork. And particularly as the avant-garde music of 2005 and...
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11 Years in Our Ideals Conflicted Post-9/11
I REALIZED that I had never reflected on the consequences of that moment, eleven years ago now, in regards to the life of Americans. And I believe that the perspectives of those who came of age in the...
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On ‘Savages’ and ‘End of Watch’
Photo Credit: The New York Times THE NARCO-WARS of today have begun to see the big screen. Oliver Stone’s recent release Savages sets itself inside the designer dope game, where special strains of...
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The Forgotten North Korean Propaganda of Americans
Photo Credit: Vice IN NETFLIX’S streaming roster there’s a 2006 documentary called Crossing the Line, which explores the lives of American deserters who joined North Korea’s regime during the peak of...
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Joey Bada$$, ‘Waves’
Download: 02%20Waves.mp3 “Waves,” Joey Bada$$ LIGHT anything: beer, jazz, versions of any kind of junkfood snack, all tend to be terrible. Hip-hop is equally plagued with this somewhat unnoticed...
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