When I turned 86 a couple of weeks ago, it came to me that I started this column over half a century ago in 1971 at the New Mexico Independent. I’ve been writing it virtually every week since. That’s nearly two thirds of my life. I’ve seen a lot of very ugly and very beautiful […]
Columns
After Trump
Massive sustained public support will be needed to repair the damage to climate change activism and the rebuilding of federal
What Hath Trump Wrought?
Trump’s presidency has accelerated America’s contribution to climate change while deregulating the agencies designed to contain it.
No Matter Your Politics, Cruelty Is Always the Same
We’re witnessing a fascist conservatism based on freedom and riches for some and social and economic penury for others.
No Matter the Shocking Evidence, I Just Don’t Want To Believe It, but To Be Sane, I Must
The Republican Party’s war against DEI has made it irrefutably clear how low it has sunk into perfidious irrelevance.
Water Mismanagement and Other Tricks of the Grifters
Is Trump’s targeting of the West an act of political revenge?
A Middle Finger Gift to the American Public: Turning Chaco Canyon Into an Oil and Gas Sacrifice Zone
Threatening Chaco is a mean-spirited political attack.






