Sue Sturgis
Sue is the editorial director for Facing South. Sue joined the Institute in November 2005 as director of Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, a project to document and investigate the post-Katrina recovery. A former staff writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the Independent Weekly in Durham, North Carolina, Sue directs and writes for the Institute's online magazine, Facing South, with a focus on energy and environmental issues. She was the first journalist to be awarded the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters' Catalyst Award for her commitment to educating the public about important environmental issues.
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“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”
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"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."
A highway to peace or a highway to hell?
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals.
Is pretend politics—hawking a counterfeit self—the ultimate right-wing propaganda?
For “real” Rethugs one looks in vain –/ It’s quicksand, whether frauds or insane.
On MAGA’s deceptive fixation: founders ‘ordained this Christian nation’
But when did factual truth matter/ To yahoos seizing forms to shatter?