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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...
To the Destruction of the World Wide Web
Silicon Valley has encountered little public opposition in its 50-year history.
— the NY Times, May 26, 2026
Astronaut Dave Bowman shuts down or “kills” rogue AI/supercomputer Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey...
What We Learn When Indigenous People Fight for their Land
Co-authored with Prashant Rahi
In the first week of April, tribal villagers in the forested mountains of Odisha, a state in India, came under attack by heavily armed police. In Kantamal, population 1000, a hub of anti-mining resistance in...
What Happens When You Talk to Ecologists?
Across the planet the lord of the Anthropocene strides, towering and terrible and carrying a smartphone. Picture him now: a 5G-enabled golem that’s part Bill Gates, part Elon Musk, part Donald Trump, with an asshole modeled precisely after...
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