Katharine P. Jose
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Katharine P. Jose is a New York-based writer and editor who most recently worked for Tribeca Film Festival and previously, The Huffington Post. She has a degree in history, a background in research, and has written on topics ranging from the history of standardized time to contemporary literary scandals.

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The Future of Change for Chavez: Time

0 Comments | Posted August 28, 2007 | 4:10 PM

Change comes rarely to time. Standard time -- our system of twenty-four time zones -- has become a fact. Like the stock market, lost in its ubiquity is the fact that it once didn't exist.

Last week, mercurial Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez turned a few heads when he announced...

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The NAFTA Superhighway: Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory

0 Comments | Posted August 20, 2007 | 4:08 PM

Conspiracy theories don't brew overnight.

It was a little more than a year ago that Human Events journalist and right wing whisperer Jerome Corsi began slinging a series of accusations at President Bush in an article about an alleged "NAFTA Superhighway." Corsi said the president was secretly planning...

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Objects in Mirror: Texas and the Future of the American Highway

0 Comments | Posted June 4, 2007 | 5:54 PM

Last week in Texas, America's fifty-year love affair with the highway became a little more complicated.

In a decision that seems to defy intuition, the government of the oil state, the pro-development state, the home state of the road that will be, when construction is finished, the widest highway...

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