Category: Politics

I Cannot Take it Anymore

Facing the forces of Trump.

by on

Prison Politics

Teaching at Garden State Prison the morning after the election.

by on

Local Politics

On July 28, I attended a meeting of the Princeton mayor and council. I had been asked to come by a member of Food and Water Watch. The pro-consumer NGO wanted a student environmentalist there to show support for a proposed local fracking ban. I had never been to any such meeting, and didn’t know what to expect.

by on

Climate reporting in the age of “alternative facts”

On the state of environmental reporting under Trump.

by on

What We Lose to Lithium

How a lithium mine in Nevada is compromising Indigenous autonomy, and the danger of letting it go on.

by on

Arrived

On our post election world, and an alien invasion

by on

All in the Family

My Brother, the Trump Supporter.

by on

Voices from the Women’s March

Eight Princeton students reflect on protest, identity, and Drumpf’s inauguration.

by , , , , , , , on

When Sustainability Isn’t Sexy

“Does the ‘look’ of sustainability, a sort of glamorous image expressed in the carefully crafted brand of environmental nonprofits, obscure all the unassuming pockets of sustainability?”

by on

Choices in the Cupboard of Our Past

“The study of the Islamic world is no longer an exoticism and it is no longer a luxury.”

by on

I Was With Her

On Hillary Clinton, after the election.

by on

The Cheapening of the Left

In the age of online activism, a writer considers how progressivism has become fashionable.

by on