6 Years Ago, North Carolina Chose To Ignore Rising Sea Levels. This Week It Braces For Disaster | Jenavieve Hatch

Cape Hatteras lighthouse. By Henryhartley, CC BY-SA 3.0Sept. 11, 2018 (Huffington Post) -- In 2012, North Carolina legislators passed a bill that barred policymakers and developers from using up-to-d ...

Amerika: One Big Commercial | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2018 I love sports. Since I was a young kid, I can remember, vividly, sitting in our living room, circa 1960, on a Sunday afternoo ...

Where's the Rest of our Country? | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2018 In the 1942 epic film King's Row, actor Ronald Reagan (of all people) played a down-and-out working stiff (Drake McHugh) who j ...

A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller

Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...

The Audacity of Super Wealth | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2018 As a transplanted New Yorker living in what I call "Death Valley USA," or Daytona Beach, Florida, I like to keep up with my ol ...

U.S. consumer spending, inflation data point to strong economy | Lucia Mutikani

Aug. 30, 2018 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in July, suggesting strong economic growth early in the third quarter, while a measure of underlying inflation hit th ...

What’s the life of a single raccoon worth? | Mickey Z.

Photo: Paxson Woelber (CC BY-SA 3.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2018 I notice things. If I casually glance out my bedroom window -- in my apartment of more than a dozen years -- I will no ...

An Astrological Interlude: Brexit | John Michael Greer

Aug. 29, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The noise and bustle generated by the ongoing three-ring circus of U.S. politics in the era of Trump can make it hard sometimes to notice that performances just as co ...

Fishing activity skyrocketed ahead of ban in South Pacific area | Grant R. McDermott

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Ahead of a full ban, fishing increased 130 percent in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the South Pacific, setting back projected efforts to ...

CAGED! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2018 In Stanley Kubrick's classic film Spartacus, we can see the caged area where the gladiators fought. If you fork out Pay Per Vi ...

Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...