The Whitewashing of Mayor Pete
Let me begin by stating the obvious. For the majority of his life, US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg passed as a straight white male. This is how others viewed him, and thus treated him...
Category: North America
Indian Famines, Swedish Infrastructure, and Combatting the Next Recession
In 1972, the Indian state of Maharashtra was stricken with a drought that decimated crop yields and put 25 million Indians at risk of starvation. After years of plentiful rainfall and experimentation...
“No to Trump – No to NATO”: thousands protest in London against Trump and the NATO summit
As NATO leaders convened in Buckingham Palace on the 3rd of December to mark the alliance's 70th anniversary at the Heads of State summit, thousands of furious protestors marched the streets of...
America and Kurdistan’s “enduring bond”
Last week, during a surprise trip to Iraq, Vice President Pence praised what he called the “enduring bond that exists between the Kurdish people and the people of the United States.” It is not...
Hell’s Lookouts: the fire lookouts of the American West
Another day of work finds me and a partner hundreds of feet above the prairies of Coconino County, sweating and swearing under the desert sun. A fire lookout has called down to the Williams office...
#BuyNothingDay? Check your privilege
It is Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving when shops offer huge discounts to shoppers who are ready to face their Christmas shopping. A few years ago, those of us in the UK or Australia didn’t...
#WednesdayWisdom: Who else should Trump pardon?
In rapid succession, Donald Trump has pardoned a turkey and a war criminal, and the turkey clearly got the better bargain. No one wants anything in return from the turkey. Nobody’s saying it should...
A voice for immigrants through ‘Living Undocumented’
The reality of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the United States is reflected in the story of eight families in Netflix's new documentary, Living Undocumented. It tries to show that this is...
Revisiting The Campaign: How a 2012 Comedy Foreshadowed Our Current Political Environment
Will Ferrell had a string of memorable comedies in the 2000s-2010s from the likes of Anchorman, Step Brothers and Talladega Nights. There are several other films you can probably list that he did in...
#WednesdayWisdom: The Donald J. Trump Haunted House
This blessed Halloween season, what do you get for the man who has it all? What do you get for someone who already has the presidency, a very exciting if a bit shaky interpretation of reality, and an...