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We were promised hoverboards: Of course “Back to the Future II” got 2015 mostly wrong — here’s why

Oct 19, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, mic, Science and Technology

Published: Salon (October 19, 2015) Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Wednesday is October 21, 2015 – the date visited by Marty McFly in the time-traveling DeLorean 26 years ago in “Back to the Future: Part II” – and we do not have hoverboards. I repeat, hoverboards do not exist — these toys don’t count. In fact, not much of the technology that appears most ubiquitously in the 1989...

The Right (and Wrong) Way to Discuss Socialism

Oct 17, 2015 | Democrats, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, Liberalism, mic, Political Parties

Published: Salon (October 20, 2015), The Good Men Project (October 17, 2015) Is the term “socialist” losing its stigma? There are two examples from last week's news cycle that shed some light on that question. At the beginning of Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Anderson Cooper challenged Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Vermont liberal’s willingness to describe himself as a democratic...

What Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand about gun control

Oct 16, 2015 | Elections - Presidential (2016), Gun Control, mic

Published: Salon (October 16, 2015), The Daily Dot (October 14, 2015) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) waffled during last night’s debate when he was asked about his gun control record, and despite the candidate’s widespread online popularity—especially on Reddit—the Internet definitely took note. Although Sanders wasn’t the only Democrat on that stage with a record of opposing gun control...

How Bernie Sanders is spending $1 trillion to fix America’s Internet problem

Oct 13, 2015 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Science and Technology

Published: The Daily Dot (October 13, 2015) On last Sunday’s Meet the Press, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) found himself in a familiar position—namely, defending his $1 trillion economic plan. Sanders’ program, known in the Senate as the Rebuild America Act, consists of two major parts: A system of Medicare for all and investments in fixing our “crumbling...

Not all lives matter: The perverse hypocrisy of “pro-life” gun enthusiasts

Oct 10, 2015 | Abortion, Gun Control, mic, Republicans

Published: Salon (October 10, 2015), The Daily Dot (October 7, 2015) In a recent episode of The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah jokingly compared Republican politicians’ pro-life stance on abortion with their blasé attitude toward the increasing number of American deaths caused by gun violence: “They just need to have a superhero’s dedication to life. Because right now, they’re more like comic book...

The Case for Unions

Oct 9, 2015 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, mic, Plutocracy

Published: The Daily Dot (October 9, 2015) On Wednesday morning, Huffington Post employees sent out a letter to their colleagues calling for them to unionize. “We believe organizing is the best way both to preserve what’s already working and to bring about positive change,” they argued. “Simply, a union will give us a voice in our newsroom’s future.” The Huffington Post writers may be making...

Bernie Sanders and the Plight of Jews Who Criticize Israel

Oct 8, 2015 | Elections - Presidential (2016), Foreign Policy, Jewish Experiences, mic

Published: The Good Men Project (October 8, 2015) When you’re a Jewish person who is willing to criticize the State of Israel, you quickly discover three things: To many other critics of Israel, the authenticity of your position will be constantly questioned. Indeed, whereas a non-Jewish critic of Israel can easily acknowledge that the situation is complicated, a Jewish critic is often held in...

The worst thing about Uber’s predatory surge pricing is that everyone is doing it

Oct 6, 2015 | mic, Plutocracy, Science and Technology

Published: The Daily Dot (October 6, 2015) Since early 2012, the mobile company Uber—a ridesharing app that helps consumers request cabs and other transportation services with their smartphones—has employed a form of price gouging known as “surge pricing.” The controversial and often costly practice uses an algorithm to increase the price of service during peak hours—when there’s high demand and...

Activision should be ashamed of its ‘Call of Duty’ terrorism hoax

Oct 4, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, mic, Scandals, Terrorism

Published: The Daily Dot (October 4, 2015) To promote the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Activision reskinned the franchise’s Twitter account into a fake news agency called “Current Events Aggregate.” Its plan was to tease the plot of the new game through these fictitious news stories. Unfortunately, the company neglected to clearly indicate that any of the tweets they posted - which...

Why J-Law Is Wrong About Trump

Oct 1, 2015 | Conservativism, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, mic, Republicans

Published: The Good Men Project (October 1, 2015) While promoting The Hunger Games: Mockinjay - Part 2, Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth both expressed justifiable disdain at the prospect of Donald Trump winning next year's presidential election. "If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world," the Academy Award-winning actress reportedly said. "I'll back you up on...

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