Image Source: מפה מדינית של המזרח התיכון – Public Domain Over the past four decades, there have been at least three tectonic shifts in the geopolitics of the Middle East, often referred to as efforts at “changing the map” of the Middle East. In 1982, Israeli Defense...
Photograph Source: Basel Yazouri – CC BY 2.0 “What are you going to do now, pull a baby out of your bag?” The guard’s voice echoed through the marble halls of Capitol Hill, his words hitting me like a physical blow. Not just because of their callousness, but because I...
Image by John Crozier. What sparked me to write this article was the persistent and reductive narrative that resurfaced following the recent U.S.–Israel bombing of Iran. Predictably, media coverage and social media posts quickly recycled the familiar trope: that...
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I think of climate as a package in 3 basic parts – temperature, water, and wind. Here in the US, this trio is basic to the Forest Service “Hot Dry Windy Index” for measuring likely risk of...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical...
One of 32 varieties of arabica coffee growing at Paraiba Federal University’s coffee research program in Areia, Paraiba. Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. It has been important to its national economy since the 1700s, and today it is Brazil’s largest...
Getty and Unsplash+. Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly...
Image by Marcin Jozwiak. “Trump’s EPA to repeal core of greenhouse gas rules,” was the Reuters headline this week as Lee Zeldin, chosen by Donald Trump to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced what Reuters said “will rescind the...
Image Source: מפה מדינית של המזרח התיכון – Public Domain Over the past four decades, there have been at least three tectonic shifts in the geopolitics of the Middle East, often referred to as efforts at “changing the map” of the Middle East. In 1982, Israeli Defense...
Photograph Source: Basel Yazouri – CC BY 2.0 “What are you going to do now, pull a baby out of your bag?” The guard’s voice echoed through the marble halls of Capitol Hill, his words hitting me like a physical blow. Not just because of their callousness, but because I...
One of 32 varieties of arabica coffee growing at Paraiba Federal University’s coffee research program in Areia, Paraiba. Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. It has been important to its national economy since the 1700s, and today it is Brazil’s largest...
Getty and Unsplash+. Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly...