Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I was listening to this NPR piece on the continuing rise in the stock market Sunday morning and was struck to hear this: “Despite the concerns about the impact of tariffs, the economy has held up much better than many expected.” To...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s maddening, isn’t it? To watch all these establishment politicians and media figures scatter to their personal accounts and feign moral outrage over Gaza… now, after nearly two years. As if this genocide just sprang out of...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Donald Trump declared that America will never be socialist. He’s beating up a strawman, since there has never been a fully socialist country. That’s because, throughout history, every country, whether it considers itself...
Printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was made in reaction to the newly drawn state senate election district of South Essex created by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the Democratic-Republican Party. It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s maddening, isn’t it? To watch all these establishment politicians and media figures scatter to their personal accounts and feign moral outrage over Gaza… now, after nearly two years. As if this genocide just sprang out of...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Donald Trump declared that America will never be socialist. He’s beating up a strawman, since there has never been a fully socialist country. That’s because, throughout history, every country, whether it considers itself...
Printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was made in reaction to the newly drawn state senate election district of South Essex created by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the Democratic-Republican Party. It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political...
Image by Duncan Shaffer. MoveOn and the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) hosted a spirited rally and march here in Seattle, on July 26, with the theme of fighting back against Trump and greedy billionaires such as Jeff Bezos (the creepy tech mogul who...
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...