October 2021

Requiem for Bachman’s Warbler

Colin Powell, Moral Weakling

Vice President Harris Confronts a Reality Gap

Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents

Is Australia’s Nuclear Sub Deal, Its First Step Toward Building Nuclear Power Plants?

What Are the Prospects for Peace? An Interview With Abby Martin

Advice That Kills

America’s Cold Civil War

Indigenous Movements are the First, and Often Last, Line of Defense in the Fight Against Fossil Fuels

Adieu, Facebook: Irony and the Finale of Farewell

Supply Chain Blues: Who’s Pulling Yours?

The West Wants to Engage Russia and China on the Climate Crisis While Also Demonising Them – It Won’t Work

Legacy of Shame: Colin Powell’s Blood-Soaked Service to the Empire

Zionism’s Bête Noire: How Richard Falk Became an Intellectual Pariah

Modernity: Never Shutting Up

Forlorn Farmers, Fatal Fears

Cheap Grace and Climate Change: Australia and COP26

As Sirhan and Hinckley Prepare to Walk Free, Why is Ruchell Magee Still in Prison?

Seeing the Future

Will Dems ever get tough with Manchin/Sinema?

The High-Paid Media Types are Unhappy Workers are Getting Higher Pay

Young Men Aren’t Falling Behind Young Women

Central Europe, From Postcommunism to Democracy?

The Virtues of Passenger Rail for Rural America

After Corbyn, Israel Lobby Turns Its Guns on UK Academia

The Embarrassment of Riches

Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking

Anti-Vaxxers and Climate Change Deniers: Living in a Post-Fact World

Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve Board

Funeral Rites for COVID Zero

A Smiling Sayonara from Private Equity’s Pioneers

Reconciling God with Wild Animal Suffering

Is Trump’s Violent Dishonesty Inexorable?

Nicaragua is the Exception: Letter to a Cynic

Good Americans

Stop the Deforestation Madness

Legacy Social Media: Free as in Beer, Not as in Speech

Checking in With Dave Zirin: Kaepernick, COVID and the MLB Playoffs

The Climate Movement’s Last Stand?

The Political Economy of Timber Theft

Roaming Charges: Supply Chain of Fools

The Haitian Migration Crisis: Made in the U.S.A.

Endless Enemies and the Permanent War Economy

Brazil, Amazon, World: Crimes Against Humanity

America’s Instinctive Fascism Creeps On

Toothless: the Build Back Better Bill’s Dental Coverage

Afghanistan Tackles the Islamic State

Squid Game, Capitalist Game

How Feminists Can Support Afghan Women Living Under the Taliban