Mexico, today Paramilitaries vs. Narcos … the other war? Weekly Millenium Magazine Num.- 723 Jorge Alejandro Medellin From August 2010 the government of Felipe Calderón has refused time and again the existence of paramilitary groups operating in the country, working to fight and to exterminate members of drug cartels, groups like the self-styled "Matazetas". But […]
What is the World?, by Phin Upham
How do we organize and understand the world around us? In this review of seminal scholarship on the subject Phin Upham reviews some of the major theories and integrates their conclusions. Construal, the sense in which we organize our world around facts rather than facts organizing the world for us, is a crucial concept in […]
How We Think – An Analysis of Cognition
How do we think? What ideas of self are embedded in this process? A review of classic theories of self is presented and synthesized in an article by Phin Upham Classic theories on cognition present a view of self (both explicit and implicit) and their consequences (and presuppositions) constituting 1) a demonstration that we avoid the […]
Two Years Later: The Media Response to Death Panels and Why It’s Still Important
by Matthew L. Schafer and Regina G. Lawrence (This article is based on an academic study by Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Chair of the Manship School, Dr. Regina G. Lawrence and Matthew L. Schafer, JD/DCL/MMC Candidate. This article originally appeared at the media website LWR.) It’s been almost two years now since Sarah Palin published […]
Why the Old Media’s View of “New News” Is Old News
Note: This article originally appeared on the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. by Matthew L. Schafer On Wednesday, Len Downie, Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and former executive editor of the Washington Post, spoke about what he and others have called the “new news” of the 21st century. […]
Depending on A Global Workforce
This is the second and third parts in a series of blogs Nourishing the Planet will be writing about workers in the food system. Nourishing the Planet research intern Ronit Ridberg recently spoke with Erik Nicholson, National VP of the United Farm Workers of America. In the first part of this two-part interview, Erik talks […]
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