Posts Tagged ‘outsized’

The outsized place of the U.S. university in the current struggle

On October 26, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a condemnation of so-called “campus antisemitism” (in line with the State Department’s capacious understanding of that term). In its wake, administrators at Columbia University have suspended their campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, as announced by their ominous special committee […]

Veterans Target US Military’s Outsized Impact On The Climate Crisis

Above Photo: A banner connecting U.S. militarism and climate change at COP26. Twitter/@MejiaSouth. With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint. More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where […]

Small independent news outlets have outsized impact

Google, Facebook and Twitter were hauled in front of Congress last week to explain how Russian bots were able to spread fake news on their platforms. The concern is that these bots and fake news sites had a significant impact on the 2016 election. Fighting fake news, however, is not the only or best way […]

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