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“Among the rescuers at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center collapse, where worlds and lives are ground to dust”
(Originally published at Salon.com, September 19, 2001)
Body No. 1 shattered all illusions of finding survivors. He was a curly-haired guy with a paunch and puffed red lips, and he was sleeping on his stomach with his arms over his head, l...
Meta Needs to Be Destroyed
Welcome news today, or so we’re told: “Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims.” The settlement came after multiple lawsuits charging the company’s platforms “endangered children.”
Of cours...
A Story of Radical Eco-Defense in France — and in French!
Note: This article originally appeared, in English, in the January 2026 print pages of the excellent Baffler Magazine (and online here). My daughter, Léa Barouch, a Franco-American dual citizen, translated it.
Denatured is a reader-suppor...
Direct Democracy Means Sustained Disruption of Anti-Public Interests
The defining feature of Western representative democracy today is that the individuals we elect don’t represent anything other than monied interests and corporate power. We know this from the daily news, from our gut sense, from watching ti...
Down the Colorado to Find the Future of the Southwest
Cataract Canyon. (Photo by Laurel Hagen)
Note to readers: Below is a piece I wrote for Harper’s in 2013, a remarkably prescient look at what will happen to the Colorado River Compact as epic drought causes the hydraulic empire of the Ameri...
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