Thursday, August 09, 2018, 6:00 p.m., Spice Acres Farm
Cape Town, South Africa, one of Africa's most affluent cities, may be the first city in the world to run out of municipal water. Population growth, overdevelopment, and climate change, coupled with rising inequality and political dysfunction, have converged to create an imbalance between water use and supply. Cape Town's countdown to"Day Zero," while dire, is not unique. Faced with increased periods of drought, many urban centers around the world are...
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Ohio Ballot Beat: The Bipartisan Congressional Redistricting Reform Amendment (Issue...
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Friday, April 20, 2018
Red state, blue state: How colors took sides in politics
For decades, each party simply used a combination of red, white and blue. palbrigo/shutterstock.com David Scott Kastan, Yale University When Americans hear some pundits projecting a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterm elections, they understand that this is a prediction of a big Democratic victory. Blueof course symbolizes the Democratic party, while red represents the GOP. This might seem like a long-standing tradition, but it isn’t. While writing my forthcoming book “On Color,” I was surprised to discover that this is a recent convention, not some practice with roots dating back to the birth of the two-party system. Of course, there has always been color-coding in individual political campaigns. But for years, both major... read on
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The United States is experiencing a rapid and profound transition from an industrial economy to a digital, global, and knowledge-based and service-based economy. Like much...
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