by Sara Robinson | Jul 8, 2008 | Blog
Ah, you optimistic soul. Did you really think the nuclear power debate died after Three Mile Island brought the reality of its dangers home to insurers, investors and utility companies? Think again. As both the rhetoric and the reality of global warming heat up in the...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 7, 2008 | Blog
Marc Ambinder at theatlantic.com notes that Crocs (which are probably what your children are wearing right this minute) seem to be a perennial favorite when GOP presidential candidates come to Colorado and need to call out a Great American Company: President Bush, on...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 25, 2008 | Blog
Over the course of my master's program, I've had some tortured conversations with my dean over the direction my research is taking. He's been poking at me (and, being an atheist who was raised by Jesuits, he's one of those gentle souls who knows how to poke sharp and...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 18, 2008 | Blog
The current debate over offshore oil leases has put America's gargantuan energy appetite back on the discussion table this week. I've tried to stay out of it so far for two reasons. The first is that (here comes the full disclosure) I married into a family that's been...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 13, 2008 | Blog
Twenty years ago this spring, the small software company I was working for hired in a new vice president of advertising to be, among other things, my boss. The guy, who'd come from running his own agency, was a CEO crony. He had all kinds of old-hippie cred (he'd...
