Author: Mark T. Harris

There’s a lot of talk in the Trump era about the “war on science.” But this war, such as it is, extends far beyond uninformed Republican attacks on climate change science or Donald Trump’s mocking insults of Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist nearly 60 years the old bully’s junior. This war involves not only

NO BILLIONAIRES, NO FASCISTS, NO WARMONGERS There’s probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism. Actually, imagining just a kinder, more equitable version of capitalism, one in which the existence of elite wealth is tempered by the peoples’ right to health care, a college education, affordable

From Reproductive Rights to the Opioid Crisis and More, the Promise of Single Payer With an authoritarian, right-wing President in office who disdains everything from women’s reproductive rights to basic climate science, who touts military coups in Venezuela and genocide in Iran and yucks it up with crowds of racist louts who want to shoot

In the San Francisco Bay Area many years ago, I was once walking through an indoor suburban shopping mall south of the city. There from a distance I encountered the scene of a woman, two young children in tow, impulsively jamming an empty stroller into the side of the older child, a boy who looked

It was in 1947 that the poet W.H. Auden published his famous book-length poem, The Age of Anxiety, which a year later would win the Pulitzer Prize. After Nazism and a catastrophic world war, nuclear genocide in Japan, and the launch of the Cold War, it was no surprise that the term soon became a popular