FEATURES & COLUMNS Alaska Native Wisdom for Modern Times
by Larry Merculieff How did Alaska Native cultures manage to sustain cultures and economies over thousands of years without inviting economic catastrophe, depletion of natural resources, or societal collapse?
The Arctic Land Claims Journey
by Barry S. Zellen Over the last forty years, tremendous structural innovations have been made to the North American Arctic’s political and economic systems, the result of a multi-generational negotiation of Aboriginal land claims treaties. The Inuit and other Aboriginal northerners have become powerful stakeholders in the systems that govern the Arctic today.
Bear with Me
by Kris Farmen It can get grizzly when an Alaskan gets stuck waiting for a flight back home.
Deputies and Dynamite: Railroad Battles
part two of two, by T. Hall Alaska railroad battles weren't just fought in the halls of Congress or city clerks' offices: there were deadly streetside shoot-'em-ups between the Alaska Home Rail men and the Guggenheims' men.
Dr. Geyges' Guide for the Perplexed
advice from Dr. Geyges for the theologically challenged Lloyd of London writes in with a question: where on earth did this witchraft nonsense orginate?
Health Care Reform at the End of 2009
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis A significant political achievement of the year 2009 is that for the first time, health care reform bills have actually gotten to the House and Senate floors—and been passed.
In Order to Think, You First Have to Shut Up
A Conspiracy of Ravens, by Richard Seifert If we really want a better world, we should do all the things that countervail climate change and mass extinctions and ocean acidification.
Let's Pay as Little as Possible
The Long View, by Ross Coen Alaskans haven’t paid a state income tax since 1980. We have an entire generation of young voters for whom the very idea of a state tax on income is beyond their personal experience.
The Missionary Position on 2012
by Neal Matson 2012 was, by far, the best disaster movie I have ever seen.
Technologies Not of the Same Order: A Philosophical Contrast
Outpost Agriculture, by Philip A. Loring: Seven Agricultural Myths, No. 3 One of the most potent myths of industrial agriculture is the claim that biotechnology will eventually solve all of the problems that people like me point out about industrial agriculture. It's important to remember that there's a difference between a technique and a technology.
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