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…the magazine have been selected as Notable Essays for The Best American Essays 2012 and for Best of the Net 2012, and we’re a 2013 Utne Media Awards Nominee for…
…the magazine have been selected as Notable Essays for The Best American Essays 2012 and for Best of the Net 2012, and we’re a 2013 Utne Media Awards Nominee for…
…on the internet and in the world. “Guernica, and its editors, respect the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days.” –George Saunders Please help Guernica sustain…
…a prize handed over by a whimsical jury or because a combination of factors sent a ball into or over a net. We live in dreams; we go into the…
…became in the postwar years part of a social safety net for returning Japanese. My parents moved into the church parsonage, located about a mile and a half from the…
…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…
…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…
…sell you some. Six dollars a bag.” “Sure,” her husband said, stepping in to pay the man, who handed over an orange plastic net heavy with logs. Then he listed…
…people’s lives, even at times of horror or tragedy. TASHREED (DISPLACEMENT) For a while, my job was a welcome safety net. It gave me an excuse to dissect and report…
…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/
…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/
…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/
…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…
…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…