Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. On June 24, US President Donald Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran following nearly two weeks of open warfare. Israel began the war, launching a surprise offensive on June 13, with airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear...
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Many of us have been following the inflation data closely for evidence of Trump’s tariffs. Along with most other economists I have been somewhat surprised that we haven’t seen more evidence to date. One thing we can say based on the evidence, is that exporters are not...
Well, I took time off from writing (and from following major news for that matter) . A detox of sorts. Mine was somewhat required due to life circumstances from a very large move across the country. An imperative that simply didn’t allow time to focus on much of...
A beautiful day in an ugly world just doesn’t cut it anymore. Blue skies feel like an insult. Sunlight, once a balm, now stings. Ask a Gazan whose family is mown down at a food distribution site under a cloudless sky. Beauty mocks. Horror endures. Sunshine doesn’t...
Image by Pamela Huber. The nomination of Brian Nesvik to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should alarm anyone who values science-based conservation. His tenure as director of Wyoming’s Game and Fish Department raises serious concerns about his ability to...
Beartooth Range, Greater Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an estimated 58 million acres of public Forest Service land to...
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On June 17, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation released updated estimates of the spending cuts and tax breaks in the House version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. While these findings give a broad sense of the scale of the...
Photo by Bingjiefu He via Wikimedia Commons. Andrew Cuomo’s attempt at a comeback served as a case study in civic fragility, hypocrisy, party loyalty, and political amnesia. Aside from the credible allegations that once had the establishment calling for him to step...
Drought in the Midwest, April 2025. Yellow means abnormally dry weather. NOAA. Prologue On May 23, 2025, the European Central Bank issued a timely ecological and political warning that should not be ignored: “The degradation of natural ecosystem,” says ECB, “slows...
David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union speaks against the Taft–Hartley Act, May 4, 1947 If you’ve ever watched a union campaign get crushed by employer intimidation, wondered why you see so few strikes, or been frustrated that unions don’t...