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Fuel for Thought: Climate Change as Class War

The climate crisis has its material foundations in the capitalist system of production; Syracuse University geographer Matthew Huber proposes that tackling the problem requires changing how production is organized

June 7, 2022 • by Vince Carducci

Huber is essentially correct that the climate crisis is for all intents and purposes a class war, that of the transnational national capitalist class against the rest of us...

Fuel for Thought: Climate Change as Class War

Past Present

Uvalde, Texas and the Persistence of American Gun Violence

Past Present Podcast, Episode 329

June 7, 2022 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Yet another mass shooting, this one at a Texas elementary school, highlights the unique American obsession with gun rights. Niki referred to this NPR piece on the tape recording of NRA leadership after the 1999 Columbine school shooting, and Natalia ...

Uvalde, Texas and the Persistence of American Gun Violence

Labor

People Do Not Live with Indignity Forever

June 7, 2022 • by Annelise Orleck

On May 3, I—and about a hundred million other women—was reeling in the aftermath of Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s contemptuous assault on women’s bodily autonomy. We had learned about it that day because of a leaked draft decision that will eliminate the right to safe, legal abortions in ...

People Do Not Live with Indignity Forever

Sex & Gender

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Ohio has now passed laws regulating participation in women’s sports so severe that cisgender girls may opt not to compete at all

June 6, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Don’t be a sucker. Fight trans athletes bans....

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Climate & Ecology

Eco-anxiety Is a Threat to Global Mental Health—and to the Planet

If we are so overwhelmed that we turn away from climate change, it will defeat us

June 2, 2022 • by Lindsay Myers

I see the climate clock on Union Square almost every day: on my way to the grocery store, when I stop by the farmer’s market, and even on my morning quest for caffeine before I am ready to face the day much less impending climate catastrophe. In bright orange neon ...

Eco-anxiety Is a Threat to Global Mental Health—and to the Planet

Capitalism

Capitalism Is Trumping Democracy at Home

During the Cold War, American leaders came to treat democracy and capitalism as if they were interchangeable

May 27, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

All day, I have been coming back to this: How have we arrived at a place where 90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet those who are supposed to represent us in government are unable, or unwilling, to do so? This is a central problem ...

Capitalism Is Trumping Democracy at Home

Race

Everyone in the Pool? No—Not Everyone

A site for fun and competition, the swimming pool has its own civil rights history—one that is not yet resolved

May 25, 2022 • by Janet Golden

When you think about desegregation, do you think about schools? Buses? Lunch counters? How about that most innocent, necessary, and often taken for granted of summer recreation spots for hot kids and their parents—the public pool? Yet pools were, and are, a public facility, and because of that were segregated by ...

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 1. Erika Meitner: “Thumbs-Up for the Mothership”

Sea level rise and migration in Episode 1 of new poetry podcast Multi-Verse

May 25, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 1 of Multi-Verse, poet Erika Meitner reads and discusses her poem “Thumbs-Up for the Mothership” in conversation with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham, touching on themes of climate change, migration, and Whitman vs Dickinson....

Interviews

Towards Constructive Politics

What oppression is, at the end of the day, is a world that has been built in a bad way

May 23, 2022 • by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Matene Toure

It just isn’t true that the only problem that confronts people who are trying to learn the truth about their social system is that they haven’t talked to enough people who have less money than them, or a more marginalized racial or gender identity. That’s among the problems, but the ...

Uncategorized

Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

The challenge of hosting the divine

May 20, 2022 • by Wendy Doniger

Greek epic and tragedy abound in cautionary tales about people who violated the basic rules of hospitality to guests and strangers and then paid the price, even when the visitors were not gods but merely human strangers. ...

Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

Europe & Central Asia

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

80 years of displacement and suppression

May 18, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

This year, May 18 commemorates 78 years since almost 200,000 Crimean Tatars were torn from their beds in the middle of the night and forced into cattle wagons. The Crimean Tartars, a Sunni Muslim Turkic ethnic group, have lived in Crimea since the Middle Ages. In 1944, accused by Joseph ...

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

History

The Blast

An excerpt from a new novel about the radical Left in 1916 San Francisco

May 18, 2022 • by Joseph Matthews

Adding to the cannery women’s travails was their invisibility to—the willful blindness of—the city’s traditional labor unions. The women had no specific skills, the labor leaders would say when pressed, and did not fit any particular craft or trade union, so their requests to the central labor council for some ...

Essays

Fuel for Thought: Climate Change as Class War

The climate crisis has its material foundations in the capitalist system of production; Syracuse University geographer Matthew Huber proposes that tackling the problem requires changing how production is organized

Uvalde, Texas and the Persistence of American Gun Violence

Past Present Podcast, Episode 329

People Do Not Live with Indignity Forever

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Ohio has now passed laws regulating participation in women’s sports so severe that cisgender girls may opt not to compete at all

Eco-anxiety Is a Threat to Global Mental Health—and to the Planet

If we are so overwhelmed that we turn away from climate change, it will defeat us

Capitalism Is Trumping Democracy at Home

During the Cold War, American leaders came to treat democracy and capitalism as if they were interchangeable

Everyone in the Pool? No—Not Everyone

A site for fun and competition, the swimming pool has its own civil rights history—one that is not yet resolved

Multi-Verse Episode 1. Erika Meitner: “Thumbs-Up for the Mothership”

Sea level rise and migration in Episode 1 of new poetry podcast Multi-Verse

Towards Constructive Politics

What oppression is, at the end of the day, is a world that has been built in a bad way

Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

The challenge of hosting the divine

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

80 years of displacement and suppression

The Blast

An excerpt from a new novel about the radical Left in 1916 San Francisco

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