December 17, 2009

Theory

The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
History News Network
At any rate it is the cultural space in which the mobility—the increasing instability—of masculinity can be experienced. Clover has shown that the ...

Public Opinion

Americans Favor U.S. Signature on Copenhagen Treaty
More Americans favor (55%) than oppose (38%) having the United States sign a treaty in Copenhagen that would commit the U.S. to significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Still, a convincing 85% say the economy, not global warming, should be the president’s higher priority right now.

Majority of Americans Still Not Backing Healthcare Bill
Forty-six percent would advise their member to vote for it, or lean in that direction

Government Tech

Army's Go Mobile puts big computing power into soldiers' pockets
Input from soliders helped in development of system that incorporates smart phones and AKO portal

iPhone overcoming IT security skepticism
Apple's iPhone is winning over enterprise security skeptics and is now becoming a viable option to Research in Motion's BlackBerrys and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets.


Passenger Flights to Space Booked on Space Ship TwoThe first of a fleet of aircraft capable of flying to space were recently unveiled by Virgin Galactic, which plans to begin offering commercial spaceflights by 2011. Besides suborbital commercial flights, the fleet will also fly space-science missions and launch small satellites.

Policy

U.S. to move some Guantanamo prisoners to Illinois
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it will move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to an Illinois prison and hold U.S. military commission trials there in plans immediately criticized as risky by Republicans.

Contentious Party Politics Consume Health Care Debate
Kaiser Health News
In the war over health care reform, both parties seem to be surrendering old turf and defending new territory, as fiscal realities and pocketbook politics ...

Rupert Murdoch accused of using Wall Street Journal to 'play politics'
guardian.co.uk
Murdoch, it added, was now using the Journal to "play politics". In a statement, Thomson said: "The news column by a Mr David Carr is yet more evidence that ...

Blogs:

New Center to Focus on Religion and Politics
New York Times (blog)
By BERNIE BECKER Washington University in St. Louis will open a new academic center in January that will focus on the intersection of religion and politics ...

Manhattan Madam to Run Against Spitzer, Or, Why New York Politics Are ...
Newsweek (blog)
Manhattan Madam and serial self-promoter Kristin Davis announced today that she would run against her arch-nemesis, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,