Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Obama’s ‘support’ for dirty energy contains conditional clauses that make all the difference
In part the first I made four points about political context: Obama’s no ordinary candidate — given his considerable political liabilities, he is at unique pains to appear reasonable and post-partisan and unexotic. The American people are all-of-the-above on energy — saying no to particular sources or technologies is perceived as vaguely ideological and interest-groupy. […]
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Friday music blogging: Sonny J
For a brief time when I was in grad school I had a weekly show on the campus radio station called Big Dumb Beats. It was at a time in the mid-90s when “electronica” was the next big thing and there was a flood of it aimed shamelessly at mainstream appeal — dance music designed […]
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Concord vs. Keynes in the nation’s editorial pages
Ruth Marcus gets it wrong: [The economic crisis] could give the next president more maneuvering room to extricate himself from unaffordable campaign promises and to build political consensus for painful but necessary budgetary choices. Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman gets it right: And this is also a good time to engage in some serious […]
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Cloud Cult story the Weather Channel doesn’t want to share
ForecastEarth, the eco-focused show on the Weather Channel, did a great piece on the band Cloud Cult last week. (Follow Grist’s Cloud Cult obsession here.) However, they have chosen not to make the video embeddable on other sites, despite using a service that offers that option. That drives me nuts. So in a useless and […]