Leaving information technology to the geeks is no longer an option for municipal leaders as malware attacks increase.
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
While China Picks Winners, Trump Picks Losers
The Trump administration is eager to subsidize coal, but any help for the U.S. solar industry is decried as free-market interference.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Face(book) of Big Brother
The only way to end the abuses of Facebook and others is to flatly prohibit the commercial packaging and sale of our private data.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Putin’s Acts of War and America’s Muddled Response
When Vladimir Putin decided to use front organizations to leak confidential emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and deploy bots and troll farms to rev up domestic hate groups and divide progressive ones, this was nothing less than an act of war. More than a year later, U.S. intelligence agencies have warned that more is […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Who Was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
The namesake of the high school where 17 people were killed was a remarkable progressive activist—much like the students now demanding real gun control.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Neglect of Puerto Rico Sparked a National IV Bag Shortage
Hurricane Maria inflicted severe damage on Puerto Rican manufacturing plants that make the plastic bags that medical facilities need to administer drugs.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Net Neutrality and the Danger of a Corporatized Democracy
The internet is now an ATM for big business. The only people who will suffer are the ones who can’t afford to pay to play in Washington.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: Fiction? Scam? Actually, Both
The plan’s not about building more. It’s about privatizing what’s already there.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Up Against Big Tech
The old challenges of concentrated economic and political power now confront us in new forms.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What Cities Can Learn from Houston Metro’s Hurricane Harvey Experience
The city’s bus and light rail network got through Harvey mostly unscathed because officials improvised—and learned lessons from previous storms.
