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How the Million Hoodies March Quells Our Unreasonable Fears
Last week while hoodied marchers were convening in major cities all around the country to demand that George Zimmerman be brought to justice for the shooting of Trayvon Martin, another news story...
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Emergency in Slow Motion
Image from Flickr via ComSec Jon Shenk’s documentary The Island President, now in limited release, follows Mohamed Nasheed through the first year of his term as President of the Maldives—but the movie...
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Human Rights Horror Stories
Fear is one of the greatest gifts that entertainment can give. I remember a sleepless night in college after watching The Exorcist for the first time. I was already an adult (or so I thought), safely...
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Rape and Rhetoric
Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” rarely resulting in pregnancy have made the Missouri Senate candidate a household name. The content of the statements was, of course, ridiculous and...
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Bill McKibben: Planetary Emergency
Images courtesy of 350.org This first thing that comes to mind when I think of Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, Deep Economy, and Enough, and founder of the climate activist organization 350.org, is a...
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Salman Rushdie’s Happy Irreligion
Image from Flickr via Asia Society By Rachel Riederer Last Monday at a little bar inside Tribeca Cinema, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop honored Salman Rushdie with a lifetime achievement award....
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Texas Hold Up
Tuesday night at 1 a.m., I couldn’t tear myself away from the Texas state senate. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d say, but I wasn’t alone. Toward the peak of the action in Austin, over 100,000...
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Guernica’s Shutdown-Blues Playlist
The shutdown has us feeling a lot of feelings, friends, and none of them are great. We are sad about the national parks system, nervous about the debt ceiling, sort of happy about those billionaires...
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The Teaching Class
Image by Zeke Berman When Mary Margaret Vojtko died last September—penniless and virtually homeless and eighty-three years old, having been referred to Adult Protective Services because the effects of...
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Celebrate Corporate Personhood!
Brothers and sisters, we are in the middle of a momentous season. The date June 30, 2014 will live on in history: many fiscal quarters from now, our subsidiaries and our subsidiaries’ subsidiaries...
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Rebecca Saletan: Magic and Mechanics
Rebecca Saletan tells a story of attending a party in the Hamptons: when Peter Matthiessen enthused about an upcoming trip to study cranes and the book he planned to write about them, a “shall go...
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