Fantastic piece. "It really makes those midnight chats with the love bot sort of bittersweet to know that the orgasms are measured in metric tons of melted glacier." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
Russian embassy, Washington DC.
To mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion
Here's my latest, a departure from my usual water- and environment-related stories, about the emergence of tiny home villages as a solution to the homelessness and housing crises.
lawmagazine.bc.edu/2026/01/no-p...
Here in Woodstock, VT, residents and visitors have been protesting Trumpist authoritarianism every day for more than a year. Here's what appeared yesterday-- and stay to the end to see the glorious Leslie Leslie's sign! Thanks to stellar videographer Marion Abrams of madmotion!
OPINION | Even by Trump’s standards, his latest letter is so dangerous and so delusional that there is no longer any question that the president is mentally “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” as laid out in the 25th Amendment.
Insanity. Trump throws a tantrum over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, which he deserves about as much as Pol Pot, threatens to turn the last of our allies into enemies, and Repubs say "Sure, that makes sense." Is there not an ounce of courage in the GOP?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Here's my latest, about the inadvertent weakness built into the Endangered Species Act and the way that the Trump administration is poised to bulldoze the Act.
dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026/01/...
Sarcasm intended.
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If there's one thing that works better than colonial rule, it's certainly remote colonial rule.
This is obviously more bad news re: the AI bubble and coming bailouts, stated or unstated. The more personally invested Trump is in the hype cycle, the more he will use public money to delay truth time. But for now he has a notional technology saving his failed media company. Good times!
Add this to the long list of Trump actions that will be reversed as soon as his administration ends.
My latest L.A. Times op-ed: the triumph of salmon vs. Trump's sabotage.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Release of the complete Epstein file is to Trump what going to prison is for Netanyahu. Both prospects are so intensely resisted that making sure those things don't happen becomes the foundation of their policies. N. comes up with endless war; T. embraces a passel of harebrained schemes.
This prison is the ultimate embodiment of Trump's (and Bukele's) sadism, ineptitude, and ruthlessness.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
A piece about the Yurok tribe's lawyer that was a pleasure to write. He's a graduate of Boston College Law School; thus the story in the BC Law School Magazine. With brilliant photography by Jordan Gale.
lawmagazine.bc.edu/2025/07/the-...
Fascinating, revealing conversation about the mostly unacknowledged conflict between agriculture of all kinds and a healthy climate and environment. We obviously need food to survive, but the way ag is conducted now won't work much longer.
Here's my latest, a story about the Klamath River basin that, for a change, is upbeat. e360.yale.edu/features/kla...
The extraordinary elite propaganda effort on behalf of nuclear power has worked: public support for nuclear power is at record highs.
This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.
Please let us not try to overthrow the Iran regime, however odious it is. The U.S. might succeed in pulling off a coup, but it would lose the aftermath. Most people don't like having foreigners pick their governments for them. Whatever govt. emerges would be stained by its association with the U.S.
"Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. They are distractions from our inability to build anything else." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
The Trump admin is gambling that its laughably ill-suited but creepily telegenic cabinet members will not deliver up a catastrophe such as an epidemic fueled by lack of vaccinnation, an undetected hurricane, a gruesome plane crash... Not a bet I would take. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
The #Trump admin's assault on Harvest is meant to show that if it can destroy Harvard, it can take down any other university. Leaders of other fields, particularly those Trump considers insufficiently supportive, such as, say, The New York Times, would be wise to get prepared.
"Half of Yemen’s children under 5 are malnourished — 'a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the world,' UNICEF says." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Another diversion manufactured by Trump to hold the public's attention, to make it look away from more damning developments. Holding the public's attention, in fact, is Trump's main skill. He generates one petty drama after another, and we all take the bait.
The indispensable Naomi Klein passes on some insights about our global predicament. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
