One of the most overlooked aspects of the Enron scandal has been the continued failure of the ideology of privatization. Since the rise of Reaganomics, conservative planners have sought to privatize just about everything that the government provides for its citizens, everything from schools to prisons to electricity, even water.
Enron is perhaps the most visible [...]

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The results of a 26 year long study about the expansion of the Earth’s deserts were published today in the journal Science. The study, which analyzed satellite photography from 1979 through 2005, shows that the flow of the jet streams has changed in the last few decades, resulting in larger “warm pools” on the [...]

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Blue skies and warm sun are finally back in Santa Barbara. Yesterday and today have just been stunningly beautiful, so you’d think that everyone here at UC Santa Barbara would be all for going outside and soaking up the sun. Sadly, much of the central campus has been taken over by enormous doctored [...]

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I attended a symposium put on by the New Racial Studies Project last week at UC Santa Barbara. The final event of the symposium was a roundtable discussion featuring some of our nation’s most respected thinkers on race and ethnic relations in the United States, people like Kimberle’ Williams Crenshaw, Howard Winant, Kaia Stern, [...]

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