Get the Think newsletter.SUBSCRIBEMarch 24, 2019, 3:57 PM GMTBy Ani BundelEven the best creators can have a hard time knowing when to stop. The sequel trap has tripped up many a beloved series, written and…
Food Security: Largest Animal Epidemic in History Is…
Jerri-Lynn here. This Real News Network interview with Rob Wallace of the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps discusses what’s caused the current outbreak of African swine flu – the largest animal epidemic in history…
Eight Reasons Why Inequality Ruins the Economy
By Chris Dillow, an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the End of Politics. Follow him on Twitter: @CJFDillow. Originally published at…
Seventeen Ways to Think About the Finance Curse
By Nicholas Shaxson a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent…
Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For…
Yves here. I can’t understand why anyone would trust Amazon with health care data. However, the author’s closing comment is disconcerting, since she appears to be unaware of the fact that electronic medical records are…
Why Democratic Presidential Candidates May Have to Choose…
By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a communications consultant, freelance writer, advocacy journalist, and director of the Education Opportunity Network, a…
Trump Admin’s Latest Rail Safety Rollback Sets up…
By Justin Mikulka, a freelance writer, audio and video producer living in Trumansburg, NY. Originally published at DeSmog Blog This week, the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew another rail safety recommendation originally proposed during the…
Summer Reading List 2019
10 Books for Beach or Poolside This SummerA guidebook to life for college graduates, another work by two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough and a meditation on thought and genius.Bloomberg, May 23, 2019 …
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks reads from Hilters Mein…
WASHINGTON – A Republican member of Congress quoted Adolf Hitler on the House floor in an attempt to blast Democrats over the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election…