Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from his far-right government allies to reach a truce in Gaza.” – The New York Times,...
Image: FSLN (Nicaragua) logo – Fair Use In recent weeks, a motley crew of writers has found common cause in attacking Nicaragua’s Sandinista government: Jaden Hong, a high-school student from Sammamish, Washington, who has never visited the country; Jared O. Bell, a...
Image by Levi Meir Clancy. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faces growing scrutiny for its role in brutally carrying out Trump’s mass-deportation agenda, another institution’s involvement has received less attention: the U.S. military. Trump’s use of...
Image by Road Ahead. A recent article published in The Hill celebrated the revival of the Monroe Doctrine under Donald Trump by suggesting that U.S. pressure is displacing China from Latin America. But this view misreads both the nature of U.S. influence and the...
Trans-oceanic cargo ship on the Columbia River. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. When an earthquake hits somewhere in the ocean, surrounding countries near and far brace for the big waves that inevitably follow. Donald Trump’s tariff announcements are just such a tectonic...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It is always dangerous to try to get into Donald Trump’s head, and there probably is not much point to the exercise, but Trump says the purpose of his tariffs is to bring down the trade deficit and move to balanced trade. Tariffs can...
The original Laguna Fire lightning strike ignition burning up against the Rincon Colorado cliffs. Photo: US Forest Service. Another fire recently escaped control in the Jemez Mountains of the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF), west of the Chama River Canyon Wilderness...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one. With a dearth of ideas as to how to come up with a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem, he has received a majority...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Home to almost 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Delaware’s reputation as America’s “corporate capital” has faced challenges in recent years. Tesla’s and SpaceX’s high-profile exits to Texas in 2024 highlighted other cracks in...
Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats — are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...
Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...
Photograph Source: Public Domain On August 7, the Gainesville, Florida city commission voted to make three pedestrian crosswalks less visible, and the pedestrians using them less safe, under threat of funding cuts from Florida’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”...