Robinson Jeffers: Rock and Hawk
Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.
Kari Hammerschlag, Christopher D. Cook: Banks Worldwide Must End Funding of Factory Farms to Halt Climate Damage
As the climate crisis boils over, new research shows that reducing methane emissions is our best hope to rapidly stem the crisis.
Abby Zimet: OMFG Texas – Giving Nazis – Also Slave-Owners and Assorted Bigots – A Break
Alas, the move to whitewash history isn’t going so well in one of the last states to tell slaves they were free…
Chris Winters: What the Pandora Papers Tell Us About Ourselves
Globally, anywhere from $5.3 trillion—about 6.25% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product—to as much as $32 trillion has been thought to be held in offshore tax havens.
Rebecca Gordon: Seeing the Future
For the sake of the world, let us hope that this time Cassandra will be believed.
Earl S. Braggs: Such is the Love Story of Sally
It was not the first time that Thomas Jefferson asked
her to dance.
La Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty | A Manifesto for the Future of Our Planet
Food Sovereignty promotes justice, equality, dignity, fraternity and solidarity. Food Sovereignty is also the science of life.
Sharon Fagan McDermott: Three Ways of Looking at Beauty
When the hypnotherapist brought me out of my trance, I wondered about this deer, about my new vision of beauty—why had it changed? Something fundamental in me had shifted and reconstructed itself.
Rachel Hadas: Fire Pit
Gathered, we watched flames
flickering and drawing us together.
It was hard to pull our eyes away.
Video: A Small Antelope Horn
Sitting by the fire with a nomadic tribe, a physicist ponders the many shapes of wisdom.
Herman Melville: Art
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate…
Angele Ellis: Dances of Death | In Tango Below a Narrow Ceiling, an experimental young Syrian poet makes his book-length debut in English
What would happen in this vast dagger
If America stopped eating human flesh
For three days?
Derrick Z. Jackson: ‘Code Red’ for Climate Means Reducing US Oil and Gas Production Now
For all the obvious climate impacts, the United States does not yet seem disturbed enough to demonstrably disrupt our burning of fossil fuels.
Bryan Farrell: ‘The only way out of Libya is by sea’ — How migrant rescuers are making history in the Mediterranean
While governments fail to meet basic humanitarian requirements, rescue organizations like Sea-Watch are taking life-saving action on the frontlines of the European migrant crisis.
