James Cameron has a baseball cap with the letters HMFIC on its crown. As this is a family-friendly site, I won’t spell out what those…
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Five months ago, Brixton, one of the coolest areas of London, adopted its own currency, shown on the right below – the Brixton pound. (scroll…
If you sit very still and stare at downtown L.A. from the window of the Bonaventure Hotel’s cocktail lounge, this is what you will see:…
In US cities today, our public safety officials typically respond to violence by locking people up, by moving the offender far away from their families…
As of December 15, these necessary demands are not doing too well at COP 15. Check out Gopal Dayaneni’s video blog from the Right to…
From 2006 to 2008, at the tiny age of 22, Ashok Kumar served as a Supervisor of Dane County, in Madison, Wisconsin. He was endorsed…
In some quarters, including the Colbert Report (though I must give props to brother Colbert for mentioning this on his show ‘cause otherwise I wouldn’t…
So we’re in crisis. Things are bad. In my last post, I gave you Davies and Marcuse presenting two takes on the whys and hows…
Andrew Ross Sorkin just wrote a book called Too Big to Fail. That phrase refers to institutions and the idea that by getting bigger and…
Dr. Pop is really about storytelling — about who gets to tell the story, how it gets told and how to figure out what the…
What makes mathematicians good mayors? They solve problems! People using too much water? Taxi drivers taking folks to the wrong locations? Too many men acting…
Question: Will more people take the stairs if it is turned into a piano? Answer: Yes. Question: Will more people throw away trash if the…
Three artists help break the economic crisis down into things that we can see and touch and feel … and use. 1. Golden Globe by…
Who Let All These Housing Folks Into the Federal Reserve Bank? It was a real event. Gathered together at the Federal Reserve Bank, just a…
Peter Marcuse spoke on Tuesday night at University College of London, and Howard Davies spoke in the heart of LSE on Wednesday at noon, so…
Downtown Chicago is all planes and angles, contrasts in brick and stone, glass and steel. It is full of amazing reflections in glass. You see…
As a freelance prose and comics writer, I sweat a lot about where my next paycheck is coming from. Half my day, and I’m being…
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless named Los Angeles the No. 1 “Meanest City” out of…
Considerable genius has been applied of late to the business of making facts come alive in maps in ways that allow us to visualize inequality…
This is a post from last September 2008, from Brazil. where I attended my first annual meeting as a Synergos Senior Fellow and had the…