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From Plague to a Livable World
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The 2020 corona virus pandemic is not merely killing countless people. It is also having invisible but deleterious effects: psychological, political, and intellectual....
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A Vaccine Might Mitigate Covid-19, But What About The Plague in Its Wake...
Point of No Return. Photo: © Demerzel21 “Nobody’s seen this I would say since 1917, which was the greatest of them all, the greatest of this kind of battle,” the self-dubbed “wartime president” said....
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How the United States Government Failed to Prepare for the Global Pandemic
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State...
View ArticleRethinking Public Safety: Trust vs. Force
“Guns aren’t just a danger in and of themselves,” writes Noah Berlatsky at Quartz. “They enable a policing philosophy built on violence and forced compliance, rather than one founded on respect, trust...
View ArticleCorona Carpenter
Cameron Carpenter, the irrepressibly brilliant American organist, is not one to stay still. To watch him in the cockpit of his International Touring Organ, a two-million dollar technological marvel...
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A Memoir of Time and Place: Margaret Randal’s “I Never Left Home”
In her new memoir Margaret Randall details her life as an activist, revolutionary and poet during the turbulant years of the 60s, 70s and 80s in Latin America. I Never Left Home (subtitled Poet,...
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Mutual Aid in Queens Amidst COVID-19
Photo: Courtesy of Woodbine. COVID-19 has taken the lives of over 90,000 in the US alone, and has infected more than 1.5 million. The heart of this crisis is strongly beating in New York City, with...
View ArticleGreat Minds Think Alike: From Trump to Bolsonaro
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence. – Shakespeare, King Lear They were revelations. And they were revealed in the space of three days. And both...
View ArticleCan You Make Stagnating Incomes Go Away? The NYT Wants You To…
There is an endless market for pieces that tell us that the typical worker is doing quite well, in spite of all the gloom and talk we hear constantly. Michael Strain, who is actually a pretty good...
View ArticleTo Save Lives, and Democracy, We Need to Vote by Mail
For many Americans, vote-by-mail will be a matter of life and death come November. In a pandemic, it is immoral to force voters to choose between their health and their freedom to vote. And it is...
View ArticleThe Peace Sign: A Safe Greeting and Sign of Victory over COVID!
As the Age of COVID demands new rules of social interaction for the immediate future, a South Florida nonprofit organization has an important suggestion for how we can greet one another safely and...
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Massive Logging Putsch Planned for Wyoming’s Medicine Bow Forest
Hikers on Medicine Bow Peak, Medicine Bow National Forest. Photo: George Wuerthner. The Medicine Bow National Forest is proposing one of the most massive logging operations in the lower 48 states. As...
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Wilderness and Recreation: an Uneasy Partnership
Pup Creek Falls, Clackamas Wilderness. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The U.S. National Wilderness Preservation System currently protects 757 areas covering 109.5 million acres, or 5% of the United States....
View ArticleNo Bernie, Delegates Won’t “Turn Down the Volume”!
Ever since Bernie Sanders suspended his 2020 campaign to endorse Joe Biden, millions of supporters have grappled with questions about the best way forward for the “political revolution” against the...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
Sunday, May 17, marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education. The Brown decision addressed consolidated issues from four different cases —...
View Article“No. It’s Capitalism, Stupid.”
The title is a riff on James Carville’s disingenuous (and stupid) phrase from 1992 when he was Bill Clinton’s campaign director. Carville’s pithy quip, “It’s the economy, stupid,” became the campaign’s...
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Remembrances of Meeting Cult Novelist Andrzej Kusniewicz in Warsaw
HERE I AM The Polish word, jestem—‘I am’, ‘here I am’, ‘present’—seems to define the life of the writer and cult figure for a generation, Andrzej Kusniewicz. On an overcast, pollution-infested Warsaw...
View ArticleAs Republicans Face November Disaster, Efforts to Undermine Social Security...
Attacks on Social Security are coming thick and fast. It’s time for Americans of all ages who aren’t independently wealthy and don’t need to worry about a serious, career halting disability or...
View ArticleThe New New Cold War is Pretty Much the Old New Cold War
Remember when the Russians were coming? It seems like just last week Vladimir Putin was whistling the Soviet National Anthem just around every corner of main street. After the colossal clusterfuck of...
View ArticleDonald Trump can Learn Something from Mao Zedong’s Mistakes
Between 1959 and 1961, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) underwent the Great Chinese Famine, one of the country’s darkest times. Frank Dikötter, a Dutch historian and author of Mao’s Great Famine:...
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