…waste and presenteeism of late capitalism’s corporate wasteland.” Either the home audience simply prefers to cast the interpretive net wider, or the foreign audience is more eager to pounce on…
https://www.guernicamag.com/astri-von-arbin-ahlander-interview-with-sam-lipsyte/
…have created confusion over land ownership. Meanwhile, mining for illegal gold—which can net about twenty dollars per gram in Zwedru—is a lucrative, if unstable, source of cash for the unschooled…
…when genetic engineers use jellyfish genes to make mammals glow in the dark and nerds in southern Nevada kill people in Pakistan and Afghanistan with unmanned drones. Anyone who time-traveled…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-welcome-to-the-2012-hunger-games/
With the thousand bananas on my plate, a fish swims. The boy licks his lips and the cat, the fins. All I want Lord in Heaven is a net for…
…Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of humankind’s intimate acquaintance until somewhere toward the end of the nineteenth century, animals appeared as both agents of nature and…
https://www.guernicamag.com/lewis-lapham-the-conquest-of-nature/
…safety net? The government produced failure and insecurity, and crack buffered the results (and proved a boon to a burgeoning prison-industrial complex). Likewise, the drug-taking that exploded in the 1960s…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-apologies-to-mexico/
…Affordable Care Act would add a 3.8 percent surcharge). Funny, I don’t remember the economy suffering under Bill Clinton’s taxes. I was in Clinton’s cabinet, so perhaps my memory is…
https://www.guernicamag.com/robert-reich-the-truth-about-obamas-tax-proposal/
…November 7th? And that’s just one region on a planet aboil. Similar questions could be asked of Israeli policy on Iran where Prime Minister Netanyahu has been, quite literally, on…
https://www.guernicamag.com/tom-engelhardt-obama-against-the-world/
…as a Fulbright Fellow. An animated anthropologist and networker, he is the founder of the Public Education Partnerships program at Johns Hopkins. David is a documentary filmmaker who has produced…
https://www.guernicamag.com/the-future-of-carbon-trading-in-chiapas/
…net in the off chance that some of them fall while making a flying leap toward personal happiness. Rather, it is because we expect the government to return the favor….
https://www.guernicamag.com/tana-wojczuk-romney-as-coriolanus/
…track. The shouts of men vied for attention with the metallic whirring of drills and saws ringing in the distance. Nineteen immense cranes spread across the landscape, with the foothills…
https://www.guernicamag.com/david-vine-picking-up-a-170-billion-tab/
…led the Indian Youth Climate Network from Delhi, but it was at 2009’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that she became truly aware of just how difficult it was to…
…soccer goals in the mid-morning haze. Their construction is simple: thick green plastic netting six meters wide by four meters tall is stretched between wooden posts that are anchored into…
https://www.guernicamag.com/aleszu-bajak-catching-fog-in-lima/
…contribute to nonprofits. Only one-third of taxpayers itemize their deductions. In other words, a majority of donors currently get no tax benefit from their giving, and yet they continue to…
https://www.guernicamag.com/andy-robinson-in-defense-of-taxes/
…remove autism from this tragic story.” Alex Plank, autism self-advocate and founder of WrongPlanet.net has written for CNN, pleading that we leave autism out of the discussion of these mass…
…bulk of the plaza, a gentle open curve with beams that crisscrossed the clouds, like a large net dropped from the sky. They promenaded its length and at the other…
…penetrate our souls. “It happened in Tehran; now it will happen in Istanbul,” I was forewarned. On TV, news anchors voiced fears about the rise of so-called “green capitalists,” Anatolian…
https://www.guernicamag.com/kaya-genc-the-political-color-wheel/
…of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press. His Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey will be published by I.B. Tauris. He blogs at www.kayagenc.net and tweets @kayagenc….
…dishes were always kept in cupboards, where steak knives nestled together in a wooden block, where garlic gloves were chicly hung in a net above the sink. This was a…
https://www.guernicamag.com/diana-bruk-a-russian-jewish-american-christmas/
…people we were supposed to trust, and we can’t rely on our own government to provide a safety net. We can’t rely on anyone. I would describe that as a…
https://www.guernicamag.com/terese-mailhot-truth-is-my-aesthetic/