David Talbot
- Jul 2, 2018
- 2 min
Talbot / The New Democratic Party?
The most exciting, most encouraging political development in America today is, without a doubt, the wave of new energy in the left wing...
Elliott Negin
- Jun 27, 2018
- 5 min
Judge Should Not Have Deferred to Congress, Executive Branch in Fossil-Fuel Climate Case
On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by San Francisco and Oakland against the five biggest privately owned oil companies for...
FRANK BROWNING
- May 31, 2018
- 6 min
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...
Michael Ventura
- May 14, 2018
- 9 min
Ventura at 4am / March 24 2018: History As This Afternoon
Note: My first draft was written on the afternoon and early evening of March 24th. Pneumonia intervened. The piece was completed in May....
Elliott Negin
- May 3, 2018
- 6 min
EPA Chief Pruitt Even Violates His Own Principles
With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s job now hanging in the balance, it is a good time to recall that, just...
Enrico Deaglio / the Lunch Guys
- Mar 6, 2018
- 3 min
Report on an Italian Disaster: European Fascist Parties Increase Momentum
The Italian vote has changed completely the European political landscape, ending what was called “the Second Republic”, which started in...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Feb 18, 2018
- 7 min
And Thy Right Hand Shall Teach Thee
Here We Go Yet Again… Nineteen years ago – May 28 1999 – The Austin Chronicle published a Letters At 3am column concerning the Columbine...
James BigBoy Medlin
- Jan 22, 2018
- 5 min
WHY NOT? / Three Notes Searching for a Tune
November: Befuddlement Perhaps you might have a cure for my case of Chronic Befuddlement. The first symptoms appeared after hearing...
Elliott Negin
- Jan 19, 2018
- 3 min
From National Parks to the EPA, Trump Administration Stiff-Arms Science Advisers
The Trump administration’s testy relationship with science reminds me of that old saying: Advice is least heeded when most needed....
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
- Jan 17, 2018
- 16 min
THE OBVIOUS, THE EVIL, AND THE E-STREET SHUFFLE / Ventura at 4am
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. The Obvious “Well, just so you...
Frank Viviano
- Dec 8, 2017
- 2 min
Letter from Europe / Brexit, the Irish Dream Made Real by the Tories
I've been reading the fine print in this morning's first-phase Brexit agreement between the UK and the EU. Put simply, a road map for...
Jan Reid
- Oct 31, 2017
- 4 min
Spain's Troubles
Because my novel Sins of the Younger Sons delves into Basque separatism in Spain, several friends and readers have asked for my outlook...
Elliott Negin
- Oct 12, 2017
- 5 min
Coal is Going Down, Even Without The Clean Power Plan
Last Monday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced he will repeal the Obama administration’s regulation to...