John Naughton / theGuardian.com
Feb 23, 20193 min read
Outside Sources / 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalis
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
Feb 23, 20193 min read
WHY NOT? / National Emergencies?
If George Washington had declared a National Emergency he might have abolished political parties. In his farewell address he called...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
Jan 10, 20192 min read
WHY NOT? / Wall to Wall Nuttiness
By the time you read this the “Wall” controversy may have changed. Trump may have declared a National Emergency in order to detract from...
James BigBoy Medlin
Dec 24, 20182 min read
WHY NOT? / Breaking News
It’s been hard to keep up with the fast-breaking stories at year’s end. I may have confused a few events, but here’s a capsule review....
David Talbot
Dec 22, 20182 min read
Talbot / War Liberals
Before I run off and start swilling the egg nog, just one more comment from me about the war liberals who are heaping praise on their...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art Dan Hubig
Dec 20, 20188 min read
WHY NOT? / The Brain Trust (Early Days)
On an unseasonably warm (is warm ever “unseasonable” any more?) day in mid-October 2015, Travis Redfish headed North in his orange 1970...
Elliott Negin / Art: Dan Hubig © 2018
Dec 9, 20189 min read
Will Koch Pull the Plug on Electric Cars?
When multibillionaire industrialist Charles Koch perceives a potential threat to his fossil fuel empire, he doesn’t mess around. To...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
Dec 4, 20188 min read
No Hiding Place - An Election Notebook
There’s no hiding place down here — traditional Gospel song November 3 I look up at a clock: In more or less eighty hours the polls will...
Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
Oct 18, 20186 min read
Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...
David Talbot
Oct 16, 20183 min read
Talbot / San Francisco's Moral Failure
Three cheers -- hell, FOUR cheers -- for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for throwing his huge corporate and personal weight behind Prop. C,...
Michael Ventura
Sep 21, 20187 min read
The Politics of Helplessness - Part 1
Art/Photo: Dan Hubig © 2018 This essay begins with poetry by Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921-2014). For most Americans, he needs an...
James 'BigBoy' Medlin
Aug 22, 20188 min read
WHY NOT? / Et Tu Ted: End of the Trump Era
As loath as I am to relate stories that may be lacking in veracity, I feel compelled to share this narrative. Very recently, an...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jul 12, 20187 min read
Ventura at 4AM / THIS USA: Origins
Each sluggish turn of the world has such disinherited to whom belongs neither what’s been nor what’s coming next. Rainer Maria Rilke, The...