Pop Culture Lunch Box

Back at the dawn of the modern election-conspiracy era, Al Gore and his running mate Joe Lieberman, despite winning a half-million more vote...

1980s Canadian pseudo metallers April Wine may seem like an odd subject to cover at Pop Culture Lunch Box. Even odder to bill it above the p...

Henry Kissinger advised 12 - yes, 12! - presidents on foreign policy and has passed away at the age of 100. I’m not sure whether he helped C...

Noa Tishby grew up in the suburbs of Tel Aviv and became a child actor. After she got out of the mandatory Israeli military, she moved to Lo...

Rosalynn Smith was young Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth's best friend back in 1945 when he asked his sister to set them up. It was pract...

My main hard-news media sources are The Week Magazine (which is great because it tells all perspectives - right and left), The New York Time...

My master's thesis at Georgetown was called The Pop Culturalization of the U.S. Presidency: How Monica Lewinsky Saved Democracy. Ok, now...

Many people in the heated worlds of social media and in conversation are questioning why a TV show would make Rudy Giuliani one of its stars...

I'm trying to clear out some of my grad-school books. As part of this project, I figured it would be good to revisit and review, for o...

I'm working at a Transportation Techies event tonight, so I took the opportunity for a rare casual, roundabout bike ride to work in frig...

This article was originally published by Mobility Lab . People often consider the costs of owning or renting a home and getting to and fro...

This is the second of a two-part Mobility Lab series.  Part 1  looked at the big-picture history of transportation funding in the United Sta...

This article was originally published by Mobility Lab , with my co-author Howard Jennings. This is the first of a two-part Mobility Lab ...

This is an amazing graphic from  Buzzfeed . Glad to see I'm post-partisan. My favorite drama is  Mad Men  (which Democrats like mu...

This was originally published at Planet Change . I’ve now experienced four of these annual UN climate talks and it’s a great feeling to fina...

I originally wrote this on Thursday, October 21 for The Nature Conservancy's Planet Change blog. Reading the China Daily newspaper in ...