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We Can’t Compromise When It Comes to Preserving Wilderness
In the 1930s, Bob Marshall (for whom the Montana wilderness is named) started the Wilderness Society. Marshall declared at the organization’s founding: “We do not want those whose first impulse is to...
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Israel Bombs Shelter, Killing 11 as Polio Vaccination Effort Begins
The Israeli military killed nearly a dozen people Sunday in its latest bombing of a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip, an attack that came amid limited pauses aimed at allowing relief workers to...
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Next American Revolution #16: 2048 and Beyond
In which Senator Malcolm King, Celia Lopez, Lydia Luxemburg, and Bert Dellinger discuss electoral participation and purpose and RPS’s major victory. Elections: Avoiding the Pitfalls Malcolm, [from an...
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Whatcha Gonna Do About Me?
Lyrics You poisoned my sweet water.You cut down my green trees.The food you fed my childrenWas the cause of their disease. My world is slowly fallin’ downAnd the airs not good to breathe.And those of...
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Low Wage Work Isn’t Just Bad for Employees — It Hurts Customers, Too
I’ve always felt that working in customer-facing jobs is my calling. I’m passionate about making people feel comfortable when they enter a business, be it a retail store or a restaurant. But it was...
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Biochar Doesn’t Just Store Carbon – It Stores Water and Boosts Farmers’...
As the climate changes, large parts of southern Australia are projected to get drier. Extreme rains are also becoming more common. For farmers, these changes pose big risks. What can we do to manage...
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Klamath River Dam Removal Allows Salmon to Run Free for First Time in More...
It has been more than a century since salmon swam freely on the Klamath River, but as the largest dam removal and salmon restoration project in the country’s history nears completion, the river and its...
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Lessons of Kristallnacht, “Civil War,” and Mass Deportation
On a recent trip to Germany, I sought to better understand how the Nazi Party rose to power, and carried out the Holocaust, in which most of my Hungarian Jewish relatives perished. I gained some new...
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US Universities Spent the Summer Strategizing to Suppress Student Activism....
University administrators across the United States have declared an indefinite state of emergency on college campuses. Schools are rolling out policies in preparation for quashing pro-Palestine student...
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Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires
Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the...
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There Is a Way Out of This Mess, Joe and Kamala. Please Take It.
The headlines emanating from Palestine-Israel, though ominous, should have been expected. The problem, of course, is that the Israeli government appears intent on making a desperately bad situation...
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Netanyahu’s War Goal Is Not the Hostages’ Return. It’s the Occupation of Gaza
In his announcement Tuesday about torpedoing the negotiations for a cease-fire deal with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about “our defense and strategic assets” – control of the...
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10,000 Hotel Workers Strike at Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton for Raises, Fair...
About 10,000 hotel workers with the union UNITE HERE went on strike across the United States over the Labor Day long weekend to fight for raises, fair workloads and respect in the workplace. The...
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The Long History of Brazil’s Struggle with Musk and X
Millions of Brazilians woke up on August 31 in a country without X, after the Supreme Court ordered the national telecommunications agency to block the social media platform. This move culminated over...
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Israel Lays Siege to Jenin Hospitals: On-the-Ground Report From the West Bank
Outside the Khalil Suleiman Hospital, the largest government hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have parked dozens of armored military vehicles and jeeps,...
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AOC and the Green Party’s Failed Electoral Strategy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s explicit critique of Jill Stein and the Green Party several days ago have motivated me to write about my 17 years in that organization and why I do not support it in any way...
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Living Among Ruins: The Abyssal Human Condition
This text is not specifically about the brutal atrocity of the Gaza genocide. But it is dedicated to it, and the reasons will become clear. At the time of writing, Gaza is the tragic metaphor for the...
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Elyse Semerdjian, “Gazafication and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno...
Elyse Semerdjian, “Gazafication and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” Journal of Genocide Research (2024). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write...
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Holding the Press and White House Accountable: Solomon’s Afterword on the...
In Norman Solomon’s new Afterword in the paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, the author excoriates the White House for arming a...
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We Want Justice: The Renewed Struggle for Safety and Freedom for Women in India
The horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has triggered a massive people’s assertion in West Bengal powered by a...
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