We are in the midst of a climate upheaval. The world is burning, and we must act. This panel will discuss what is at stake and how our side can respond to the crisis. The discussion will address Indigenous sovereignty, climate refugees, and public power and will...
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A Catastrophic New Normal Has Arrived
Image by NOAA. A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climate change is morphing into a full blown ogre of destruction as several regions of the world are no longer...
The Bully Pulpit Reveals Trump’s Bullying the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine
US President Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech in 1902. President Theodore Roosevelt often referred to the term “bully pulpit” to mean he would use the country’s highest office to present his program. “Bully,” at the time, was positive, as in wonderful or sublime....
High Noon for the Mexican Wolf?
A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico, very precariously. The snapshot was recorded earlier this year on a trap camera in the Campo Verde region...
The Word That Wouldn’t Die: Awake in the Age of Forgetting
Lead Belly, Wikipedia. It was a warning — a spoken-word portent of the dangers lurking in plain sight. A call to vigilance. A whispered watchword passed between those who knew the system was not built for them. From churches to courtrooms, ballrooms to drinking...
The City We Can Call Ours
Photograph Source: Bingjiefu He – CC BY 4.0 The deafening racket we’re getting here in Spain from US politics or, more like it, from Donald Trump’s chaotic and volatile presidency, tends to drown out other signals we’re getting. In this situation of the Trump...
How to Kill a Dragon: Late Petro-State Politics in Trinidad, the US, and Venezuela
Image by Getty and Unsplash+. As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept just off the country’s shores, in Venezuelan waters. The future of the massive gas field,...
Roaming Charges: Masked and Anonymous
Still from a video posted to X of the ICE raid in Camarillo, California, that resulted in the death of a farm worker. We should stop going around babbling about how we’re the greatest democracy on earth, when we’re not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarized...
Republic of Fear
Interior of Alligator Alcatraz, with President Donald Trump, July 2, 2025. Photo: The White House. Alligator Alcatraz Not content to impugn the worth of 10 million undocumented workers, the Trump administration must calumniate the reputation of a genus of...
A Catastrophic New Normal Has Arrived
Image by NOAA. A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climate change is morphing into a full blown ogre of destruction as several regions of the world are no longer...
The Bully Pulpit Reveals Trump’s Bullying the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine
US President Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech in 1902. President Theodore Roosevelt often referred to the term “bully pulpit” to mean he would use the country’s highest office to present his program. “Bully,” at the time, was positive, as in wonderful or sublime....
High Noon for the Mexican Wolf?
A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico, very precariously. The snapshot was recorded earlier this year on a trap camera in the Campo Verde region...