AltWeeklies Wire
Unsportsmanlike Conductnew
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit suit proves just how out-of-bounds sports culture has become.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
01-09-2013 |
Sports
The New Mathnew
Want to privatize schools? You might want to buy up an election cycle or two first.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
11-28-2012 |
Elections
Tags: School Choice
What Will be the Next Target of Gun-Rights Paranoia?new
For all of its blue-steel swagger, the gun-rights movement lives in perpetual fear of threats the rest of us have difficulty seeing.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
03-28-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Global Village of the Damnednew
A year ago this month, world leaders and protesters descended on Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit. Is the city - or the world - any better off?
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
09-21-2010 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: G-20
Decisive Advantage: How We Make Up Our Mindsnew
As an assistant professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Corey Morewedge spends a lot of time studying why we make bad choices. He's earning a reputation for his innovative way of testing behavior -- an approach that's as likely to find him experimenting on Carson Street drunks as in a lab.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
04-12-2010 |
Science
Tags: Corey Morewedge
G-20 Dispatch: Never Mind Civil Liberties -- Did Police Squander a PR Opportunity?new
Going into the G-20, there was a lot of concern that anarchists might ruin a once-in-a-lifetime photo op. It didn't turn out that way. But it's still possible the police might smudge the city's G-20 halo.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
09-29-2009 |
Civil Liberties
Health Care Reform is On its Way -- But Will it Be Just a Band-Aid Solution?new
This is how screwed up the debate about health care is: When reform critics predict dire results of government intervention, their worst-case scenario is pretty much what we already have.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
09-21-2009 |
Politics
'Throw Down Your Heart' Would Make a Better Soundtrack than a Movienew
The premise here is simple: Despite its toothless-white-guy connotations, the banjo comes from Africa -- and Grammy-winning banjo genius Bela Fleck is bringing it home. But really, that mission is mostly just an excuse for Fleck to jam with musicians across the continent.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
09-21-2009 |
Reviews
Public Displays of Dissensionnew
If you'd just moved to Pittsburgh in the past two weeks, you might think you'd stumbled into a hotbed of civic disobedience. In less than 10 days, local activists have generated headlines -- and a few headaches -- with a series of high-profile protests.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter and Chris Young |
08-04-2009 |
Business & Labor
Warning Trend: The Climate Debate Goes Southnew
Here's the problem with the global-warming debate: A society that demands quick answers isn't good at solving problems decades in the making. And the highly deliberative scientific method -- which discovered the climate-change threat -- makes it hard to convince people to do anything about it.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
07-27-2009 |
Commentary
The COR of Beliefnew
For 40-plus years, the Community of Reconciliation has shown how faith can bring us together -- and how hard that really is.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
03-16-2009 |
Religion
The GOP is Tying to Make You Look Stupid. Don't Let Them.new
If elected, some of McCain's worst impulses would be reined in by a Democratic Congress. But a McCain victory will be a disaster anyway, because of what it will say about us.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
10-28-2008 |
Commentary
Windshield Wipers Ruin One Man's Life in 'Flash of Genuis'new
This is, without question, the most gripping film about intermittent windshield wipers ever made.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
10-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Flash of Genius, Marc Abraham
How the Rusyns Could Save Civilizationnew
Of all of the ethnic groups that have settled in Pittsburgh, few are as mysterious as the Carpatho-Rusyns. So convoluted is their history, so mysterious their origins, that many Rusyns are mysteries even to themselves.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
09-29-2008 |
Culture
Contract Killers: A Public/Private Partnership Goes Horribly Wrong in Iraqnew
Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth was electrocuted while taking a shower in Iraq. His death, along with at least a dozen other soldiers who have met the same fate, is a tragic, and chillingly literal, symbol of what writer Naomi Klein calls "the Shock Doctrine." In her book of the same title, Klein argues that for modern corporations, wars and other disasters are just part of the business model.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
07-29-2008 |
War
Tags: Iraq, KBR, Naomi Klein, death, privitization, corporate power, war & peace, The Shock Doctrine
