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Across most of the arid West, snowpack is low, rainfall is scarce, and residents are staring down the barrel of another year of major drought. Water levels are dropping, native fishes have become endangered, and a battle royale is heating up between western states to decide whose water uses will go unfulfilled. More

While a prominent Israeli human rights organisation and a well-known New York Times columnist use the term ‘Jewish supremacy’, some North American or European self-proclaimed leftist supporters of Palestinian rights object to these words. Typically, they claim the description is inaccurate and/or antisemitic. Some argue that “white supremacy” or “Zionism” are the terms we should use when describing the More

He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. – James Joyce Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth. – Walt Whitman On April 12th, my son, Stratton Matteson, would More

One week after posting a profanity-laced Easter message threatening to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, spent the night of April 12 and into the early morning hours unleashing a barrage of AI-generated images, threats and insults. One post depicted Trump as Jesus, imbued with divine power, healing More

There is something at once profoundly demonic in its cynicism, deeply unsettling, and almost burlesque in Donald Trump’s latest AI-crafted spectacle: a man who spent decades socializing with Jeffrey Epstein—whom he once described as a “terrific guy” with a taste for “younger women”—now reappears as a messianic healer, a kind of white, Protestant-Zionist “Christ,” as More

There are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be.  The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds to show for it; the brute who terrorises the staff, mocking their lack of adeptness, skill and knowledge for overcooking the More

With so much going on, I managed to miss the release of data on existing home sales for March. According to the National Association of Realtors, it was down by 3.3 percent from February and 1.0 percent from March of last year. Sales were down in all four major regions, but the drop was sharpest More

Home prices are up 60 percent since 2019, and purchasing the median-priced home would pose a significant financial strain for most Americans. Half of all renters are cost-burdened, paying more than the recommended maximum of 30 percent of their income on housing. Rising housing costs and a lack of affordable housing has led to a More

As Cuba teeters on the brink of an escalating US assault, my thoughts drift back to a trip my wife and I took to Havana and Trinidad (the Cuban city) in 2017. Shelly and I fell madly in love with a place so strangely unique that it wrestles with your intuitive sense of possibility. Everything More

For decades now, Mexico has faced a battery of lawsuits under trade and investment treaties that allow private foreign investors to bypass domestic courts and sue governments in international arbitration tribunals. It’s high time for President Claudia Sheinbaum to join with other Latin American leaders who are rejecting this corporate-driven, anti-democratic system. One of the More

In a tough and complex world, people tending to the left side of the political spectrum are often accused of starry-eyed naïveté when they push for the prevention of war and the building of peace through law, diplomacy and budgetary control over military forces—replacing the law of force with the force of law. The operating More

NASA got through the Artemis II mission last week with a few minor “anomalies,” as NASA calls problems, but in 2028 it plans to launch a nuclear-powered rocket to Mars as an initial step to using nuclear-powered rockets in space. An accident involving a nuclear-powered rocket could be no small anomaly. The NASA plan was More