Global temperatures are rising, and they're bringing global food prices along with them. The last year has seen massive flooding in Pakistan and Australia, alongside devastating drought in China and...
Lisa Isherwood and Mark Jordan, Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots: Essays in Honour of Marcella Althaus-Reid, SCM Press, 2010. Argentinian theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid was a pioneer in the field...
One of the most under-reported factors behind the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt was the rise in food prices in the Middle East over the last year. It’s simple, really: hungry people become...
Alex von Tunzelmann, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean , Henry Holt and Co, 2011. Americans remain fascinated by the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the fall of 1962, American...
Auteur television producer Shonda Rhimes is probably most famous for her work on Grey's Anatomy, a primetime medical drama that debuted in the 2005 midseason, followed by spinoff Private Practice. As...
Floods are rampant worldwide just at the present. There has been one disaster after another between the flooding in the northern Australian state of Queensland, South Africa, Brazil and the...
We rejoin Popular Opinion CourtTV's coverage of the Vuvuzela Trial, already in progress: “… Welcome back to Popular Opinion Court TV's coverage of the Vuvuzela Trial. I'm , the prosecution has...
Media images appear to be prime motivation this week in a collective, mobilized response underscored by Western guilt. Bombarded with dust-covered corpses, blood and broken bones, and bodies rotting...
Relief efforts throughout the globe are being organized to support Haiti as it recovers from the most severe earthquake disaster (7.0 magnitude) in over two centuries. Though official counts are...
I've seen a focus in the United States on mass political action in the past year like nothing I've seen in my lifetime. From the huge crowds at Barack Obama's campaign rallies and the unprecedented...
