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What Not to Do During a Pandemic: Business-As-Usual on Trade Negotiations
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Reduce governments’ ability to respond to the needs of citizens and prioritize foreign investors. Constrain developing countries from investing in small-scale...
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Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus
Photograph Source: Tim Green – CC BY 2.0 We are living through a time of unprecedented challenges: a major public health crisis and a deepening recession. Congress has already authorized trillions in...
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The US Has Been Exporting COVID-19 to Haiti; Now, It is Returning a Death...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down borders and airports across the world, planes chartered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to fly. Every two or three weeks, a deportation...
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The Great Divorce: the People of Colorado v. the State
When I was a boy, my dad took me and my twin sister and brothers to see the demolition of the Omaha-Grant Smoke Stack in Globeville. At the time it was among the tallest smokestacks in the world. It...
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Online Education in a Time of Grave Danger
Photograph Source: iamdanw – CC BY 2.0 I taught a college course online. I used a program that was accepted at that level of education as the standard for teaching. The program took several sessions of...
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COVID-19 Comes to Nezahualcóyotl: a Mexican City Confronts a Pandemic
Photograph Source: Mauro Parra – CC By 2.0 One of the cities most vulnerable to Covid-19 in Mexico is Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, often known simply as Neza, which is adjacent to the east side of Mexico...
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COVID-19 and the High Cost of Dying
Illustration by Becky Grant Put down the Clorox. Remdesivir may not be the effective coronavirus treatment the world desperately needs, but it has to be better than President Donald Trump’s idea about...
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Planet of the Earth’s Ecofascism
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Review: Marc Petitjean’s “The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris”
Freda Kahlo‘s brief sojourn in Paris, in 1939, was preceded by an equally brief stay in New York City, both encouraged by Diego Rivera, her husband, who was not only Mexico’s most famous artist, twenty...
View ArticleWe Are Movie Cameras, Lucidly Dreaming
Since things and my body are made of the same stuff, vision must somehow come about in them; or yet again, their manifest visibility must be repeated in the body by a secret visibility…Quality, light,...
View ArticleBeyond the Uproar Over Planet of Humans
Ever since Mother Jones owner Adam Hochschild fired Michael Moore for refusing to publish Paul Berman’s attack on the Sandinistas in 1986, I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for him. But when he got down...
View ArticleBeyond Time: Ellsie Kay, Connie Converse and a Musical Lineage
The singer-songwriter Connie Converse was born in 1924 and raised in New Hampshire. Her musical and creative aspirations took her, along with so many others, to Greenwich Village and the city at large....
View ArticleWhat Rough Beast Slouches Towards Washington and Beijing?
As the smoke slowly settles on the bucolic hills of my farmland community and many others, the Coronavirus nightmare may be far from over but the worst of it appears to be in the rearview mirror of the...
View ArticleIf Small Businesses Aren’t Essential, Neither is Collecting Rent
When I was a child, I remember having to dress up in my church clothes when I went to the bank to deposit my birthday checks or money I saved from my allowances. The idea that banks are secular...
View ArticleHumankind is Our Business: A Case for Poetic Disobedience
Everywhere around the world…resistance to industrialism, whether the machine or the factory or the culture, is likely only at the start and only where traditional values are strong and communities...
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The Most Beautiful House In the World
Ho Chi Minh’s house-on-stilts, Ha Noi. Photo George Burchett. In 2009, I concluded an essay titled The Ten Principles of Bandung, with the following lines: [In December 2006] I visited Uncle Ho’s house...
View ArticleSystem Failure: Our Food System is Not Set Up to Handle a Global Crisis
As we face empty grocery shelves the fragility of our highly consolidated food system has become clear during the crisis of COVID-19. We see a market that lacks the resiliency to shift supply lines and...
View ArticleRemembering Our Empathy
I’ve held off saying what I have to say for a while because I don’t want to engage in “both sides-ism.” When one side is Nazis, there are not “very fine people on both sides.” There are very fine...
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Assange’s US extradition, Threat to Future of Internet and Democracy
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair On Monday May 4, the British Court decided that the extradition hearing for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, scheduled for May 18, would be moved to September. This...
View ArticleStrange and Excessive Abuses by Corporations, Officials, and Narcos are...
It was basically a coup attempt and nobody noticed. Here in Puebla, Mexico, the state government tried to take over city buildings in order to secure power for drug cartels that they allegedly have a...
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