…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…
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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…
…* * *In his clean white-walled office at the United Nations compound, Jabati is surfing the net for the football scores. He is a die-hard Liverpool fan. “When I was…
…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/
…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…
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…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/