Holleman’s Dust Bowls of Empire analyzes the dustbowlification of the land as the predictable consequence of settler capitalist economies.
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History repeats itself as a coalition of richer states block poorer countries from producing life-saving generic drugs and vaccines.
Deanna MacNeil explores the pleasures of self-preservation in her poem, "The Thermodynamics of Comfort," complemented by art from Sam Davies.
The Return of Nature is a genealogy of ecological thinking. The word 'ecology' was not in common usage until the twentieth century, leading many to consider ecological thinking a fairly recent development. However, in this impressive...
When the Chinese company Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) showed up in 2014 to pitch their methanol refinery to the Port of Kalama, in Kalama, Washington, local resident Dianne Dick knew it was bad news: “We’re not fossil fuel people.” As...
Western documentaries tend to rely upon the dual tropes of white saviorism and white sympathy to offer single approaches to complex interconnected cultural issues. This results in two-dimensional solutions to problems like climate change...
On November 15, 2020, NASA and SpaceX partnered to launch a six-month science mission on the International Space Station. Despite the ravages of COVID-19, NASA's collaboration with this brainchild of Elon Musk, himself a product of an...
150 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the poor and working class of Paris — referred to dismissively by contemporary French officialdom as “the vile multitude” — rose in rebellion. They disarmed the existing national guard and armed the...
More than a year after COVID-19 was first reported to the World Health Organization, the decade-defining pandemic has revealed deep structural flaws in the policy-making, scientific communication, and economic resilience of many nations...
The global COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous strain on the US healthcare system. This strain has underscored racial inequity in the allocation of healthcare resources, including public health infrastructure vital to pandemic response, and...