Death of a Dream
…border as a political weapon, Dani Marrero Hi launched the online progressive news source NetaRGV in the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley. Neta set out to redraw the border…
…border as a political weapon, Dani Marrero Hi launched the online progressive news source NetaRGV in the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley. Neta set out to redraw the border…
…the Gulf of Maine in the early-nineteenth-century China trade, of my great-grandfather’s organizing the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company in 1899 not because of the money in the business but because of…
https://www.guernicamag.com/lewis-lapham-the-less-than-eternal-sea/
…hub and a locus of financial and political exchange. Supporting social networks and the free trade of goods, services, and ideas, the agora enabled public speech and was thus central…
…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/
…poor who were often separated from the safety net of their rural communities. * Madison was from a rural community, and she had a doctor there. Her mother had a…
…Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett had little prospect of freedom and happiness after marrying Mr. Darcy. Hopeful Monsters, by contrast, spans decades of the German-Jewish scientist Eleanor Anders’ relationship with the Englishman…
…Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics that our sexual crisis, arising from the “impact of Internet porn, sexual pharmacology, and the hypersexualization of popular culture,” and “the war…
https://www.guernicamag.com/cold-inside-sexual-climate-change/
…equivalent of white male landowners at the top. I spoke to Lalami—she in California, I in New York—a few days after the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11, just as the summer…
https://www.guernicamag.com/laila-lalami-we-have-to-think-about-citizenship-as-a-relationship/
…us how the sides, roads and bridges are eroded by the snowmelt. They describe the direction of the flow while we talk about temporary solutions, in the form of gabions—net…
…could “take the public out of public charter schools.” In 2011 the Gates Foundation seems to have deepened its anti-government efforts, giving almost $400,000 to the conservatives’ legislative privatization network…
…parks and city streets; the Internet and scientific knowledge; ethnic cuisines and hip-hop rhythms; the U.S. Weather Service and blood banks. But it’s more than just things—it’s also the set…
…to monetize the global-warming impacts of coal and other fossil fuels used by electric utilities and other major industries. In America, fossil fuel producers and users do not pay for…
I navigate a series of dark lanes. I use tiny roads, passing shops selling car batteries, ceramic tiles, thread, water pipes, exotic birds, mutton, and mosquito nets, all to get…
…will form part of a longer documentary about the Libyan Revolution. Scheduled for release on Al Jazeera Net and DVD, the documentary covers the revolution from February through to August…
…the net in 2003, the ladder has been an atavism. It exists solely to screw things up. In a June 2010 game, Red Sox rookie Daniel Nava suffered a virtual…
…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/
…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/
…as well as economist John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society , and seems to aspire herself to write “a study of affluence.” “Widespread poverty is not an anomaly. But widespread…
…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/