D is for Donald (and Decline)
The Big 3Ds (or Is It Four?)
Why America is removing thousands of dams and letting rivers run free
After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.
Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.
Putting Free Speech Out to Pasture
A small-town cartoonist in Iowa got the boot when he offended a Big Ag giant.
Kabul bomb blast kills at least 90 people. We need to know their names
We may never know who is to blame, nor, sadly, are we likely to learn the names and the life stories of the victims.
US and China why not a deal?
The very real dangers—ecological as well as geopolitical—that the world now faces encourage finding some kind of negotiated agreement on a multi-polar world.
Trump’s escalating assault on the press
Will news organizations be intimidated?
President Biden: Learn the names of children you’ve helped Israel to murder
But you know what the billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and bombs gifted by the U.S. government are being used for.
We were all outsiders in Trump’s America once — even Trump
Trump’s brand of bigotry goes back a long way in this country.
Walling them out, or walling us in?
Shall we wall off Canada, too?