Welcome to the Ukraine Moment.
Given our world, we should all probably be in the streets now. I mean, here we are heading into Cold War II, while facing the possibility of World War III on a planet that, thanks to the way we live and produce energy, is heading for hell.
Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World
Our World Is Increasingly Like a Science-Fiction Novel.
What Really Matters in the U.S. of A.
A heating planet is a danger, not in some distant time, but right now — yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Is America a Failed Empire?
Who could have imagined that humanity would inherit the kinds of apocalyptic powers previously left to the gods or that, when we finally noticed them, we would prove eerily unable to respond?
Washington is complicit in the ravaging of Gaza in these last weeks, just as it has been in the devastation of Yemen.
The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine
Life in a Wounded and Wounding Land
De-mining America After The Donald
Do I sound extreme? I damn well hope so. We’re in a gridlocked, post-election moment of previously unimaginable extremity in an increasingly over-armed, ever more divided country…
It was summer almost half a century ago when I got into that Volkswagen van and began my trip across country with Peter, a photographer friend. I was officially doing so as a reporter for a small San Francisco news service, having been sent out to tap the mood of the nation in a politically fraught moment.