July 2023

Idiots, No Longer Useful

What is the ‘Cost’ of Climate Change?

Unsmoking the World: The Philip Morris Rebranding Effort

The United States Refuses to Play by the World’s Rules

US Has a Favorite in Tumultuous Elections in Guatemala

On the Cancelation of the Black Sea Grain Deal

Black Mist Memories: the Horrors of Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific

An Exceptional Nation: American Double Standards

Hot Water in the Headwaters

The Widening Breach, in Israel and in Israel-US Relations

Letter from London: Depth of Field

Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Stealth Presidential Candidate?

Mushroom Workers Want a Union

The Cost of Re-Enforcing Political Monocultures

Misogynists and Serial Killers

Burn Your Barbies, Pause the Pink

Well, Well, Well

DeSantis Says He Would Sue the Drug Company Gilead for Trying to Keep People Alive

Evil Gap

Failed Fukushima System Should Cancel Wastewater Ocean Dumping

A Grain Airlift for Ukraine

And, Their Hearts and Minds Will Follow

Why I Oppose the Pentagon Budget

Congressional Concerns: Stalling Nuclear Submarines for Australia

Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s For Once Try Talking To Each Other

What would Nietzsche say about “The City on the Edge of Forever”?

China’s Faltering Economy and Its Implications

Republicans Fear America Will Become Communist…Really?

Cluster Bombs, Biden’s Wider War, & the NATO Left . . .

The Most Ludicrous Argument Ever Against Taxing the Rich?

How Congolese Students are Taking on Big Oil

Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

The Left Goes Nuclear

Government to Consider Alternatives to Patent Monopoly Financing of Drug Development

Teamsters/UPS Negotiations: Good News for Part-Timers?

The Afghanistan Lithium Great Game

The Eco Collapse We Were Warned About Has Begun

Zoomers: Last Chance for the American Dream?

How Book-Banning Campaigns Have Changed the Lives and Education of Librarians

Tax the Fat Cat Private Jet Class, Invest in Green Transit

Meaning of Solidarity in the Time of a New Palestine

Extremism Blends Into the Mainstream

White Supremacy and the Bombing of Hiroshima

The Strange Rehabilitation of Elliott Abrams

Why Capitalism is Leaving the US in Search of Profit

The Anthropocene in Pictures

Roaming Charges: Political Crying Games

As Earth Sizzles, Climate Denialists Rearrange Deck Chairs

Ukraine, NATO, and the Security Obsession

Collective Forgetting and the Politics of the West Bank