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Capitalism’s toxic nature

Q&A / A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and ...
The skiing discourse rarely dives into the political, but is the ever-escapist sport missing something by avoiding ...
Capitalism and the Politics of Nature Alyssa Battistoni, Princeton University Press, £30IN her new book, Alyssa Battistoni unpacks one of the key ideological structures that has allowed the rapacious ...
Where does our personal politics come from? Does it trace back to our childhood, the views that surround us, the circumstances we are raised in? Is it all about nurture – or does nature have a say ...
One of the most striking examples of the unpredictable nature of investment outcomes in relation to politics is the performance of the energy sector during Joe Biden’s presidency. Despite being a ...
Coming off the heels of a riveting first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, anyone might feel emboldened to keep up with the trill of politics, ...
The political landscape of Asia and the Pacific is as diverse as the cultures and histories of the region itself. From rapidly evolving democracies and hybrid governance systems to firmly entrenched ...
The debate about nature versus nurture goes back to humans’ earliest days of intellectual dispute. Classical Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle picked their sides on the causes of human behavior ...
Promotion reviews often end up as "political arenas" where managers lobby, trade favors, and defend their protégés, a ...
This is the second post in a series. Read the first post here. Social scientists today assume that left-right (or, in the U.S., liberal-conservative) political orientation, like virtually every other ...
Burton in 2011 speaking with Dianne Feinstein, then a U.S. senator, and Kamala Harris, then California's attorney general. John Burton, who championed liberal causes during his 40 years in California ...