Globalization

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Wolf man

Henning Mankell stalks globalization
A lone wolf lopes across a border, searching for food.
By CLEA SIMON | February 09, 2010

The Yes Men’s irreverent crisis of conscience
Yes Man Mike Bonanno on the most fun aspect of co-directing the new documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World: “climbing into an abandoned flooded quarry in a business suit with 30 pounds of rocks in the pockets to combat buoyancy for the underwater scenes.”
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | October 21, 2009

Review: Summer Hours

Deliciously stylistic
In his understated, intricate L'heure d'été , Olivier Assayas comments on globalization and materialism by way of a simple story of three siblings dividing the contents of their mother's estate in rural France.
By PEG ALOI | May 19, 2009

Slow Food movement to address the G8

GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Next summer, delegates from a worldwide effort to preserve and celebrate small-scale and indigenous farming in the face of corporate agribusiness conglomerates will address the very officials who represent the evils of globalization.
By JESSICA RHYS | January 05, 2009

Cash-strapped government

Plus, what to do about Russia, and Obama’s upcoming convention
Most people realize that the nasty economic news is getting nastier.
By EDITORIAL | August 20, 2008

Booked up

Several shelves’ worth of summer reads
Summertime, and the reading is easy.
By BARBARA HOFFERT | June 09, 2008

Jobs with a future

With the job market in flux, how can colleges prepare students for any career?
A fifth/a quarter/a third of all jobs that people will be doing in 15/20/25 years have yet to be conceived, or the job you’re doing now won’t exist in 20 years, or not in the way you do it now.
By F.S. WOLFE | April 28, 2008

Another perspective

The view from Mexico on Immigration
Carmen Romero says the idea of immigrating to the United States is “a Mexican obsession,” though the reality of immigration for many is different from the dream.
By AMY LITTLEFIELD | April 02, 2008

The morning after

Hillary is rejuvenated, but perils lie ahead
Democrats and Independents are voting in record numbers.
By EDITORIAL | March 05, 2008

Welcome to Atlantica

Free trade
Big companies in northern New England and eastern Canada have launched another initiative to free themselves from what they consider to be onerous government regulation and oversight.
By KIMBERLY FISCHER | February 06, 2008

New source for savings: outsource the economists

Modest proposals
Outsourcing used to be for textile workers and call-center employees.
By TIM LEHNERT | January 31, 2008

Raking over the coals

Letters to the Boston editor, October 19, 2007
Placing Aviva Chomsky’s article on the front page was a wise decision.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 17, 2007

The dirty story behind local energy

Eastern Massachusetts hums comfortably on Colombian coal. But the mines are devastating land and lives in the Guajira peninsula.
It’s hard to imagine that a town as poor as this one could have a slum.
By AVIVA CHOMSKY | October 01, 2007

Damn you, Barack Obama

Win or lose, Obama's small donors may have already brought a revolution in campaign financing
Now that Obama's small contributors have effectively rewritten the history of political-campaign funding, even die-hard cynics are drinking the Kool-Aid.
By AL GIORDANO | September 26, 2007

Neo-hoodoo and street kabuki

Fist and Heel at Concord’s Summer Stages and Kabuki in New York
Tradition: how to preserve it in a globalized modern culture.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 24, 2007

The Boss of It All

Since when do we believe Lars von Trier?
The Boss of It All reflects on the mysteries of identity, responsibility, globalization, and Gambini’s æsthetics of theater.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 30, 2007

Endangered tongues

We’re not surprised you speak our language
You may have read: the world is getting smaller.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | May 09, 2007

Bloodless diamonds

Non-violence and rationality reign in the MFA’s ‘African Cinema’
If the Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle Blood Diamond gets remembered for anything, it would be for the attention it’s drawn to the injustice that has risen alongside globalization in Africa.
By BRETT MICHEL | February 14, 2007

Changing concentrations

As the world shrinks, schools expand their majors and programs
Thomas Friedman from the New York Times writes that “the world is flat.” Are you too old for school?: Even at age 30, your brain is different from the average student’s. By Samantha Henig
By SEETHA NARAYAN | January 24, 2007