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08/03/24
Author: 
John Vaillant
David Erickson/Associated Pressb - Texas fire

Mar. 2, 2024

Mr. Vaillant is the author, most recently, of “Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World.”

On Thursday, as flames from the Smokehouse Creek fire raced eastward across the Texas Panhandle for the fourth straight day at speeds faster than a person can run, a cold front, driving a snow squall, swept southward over the Great Plains. In an elemental collision, the fire and snow met east of Amarillo, the swirling flakes joining and then melting into the smoke and ash of the colossal prairie fire.

08/03/24
Author: 
Winnipeg Free Press
Slim hugs Jessalyn Dimanno, the manager of outreach for the Coalition for the Homeless. CALLAGHAN O’HARE / FREE PRESS

Mar. 8, 2024

HOUSTON — The bright Texas sun bears down on the cracked cement landscape behind a gas station on the city’s outskirts. Here, an elaborate makeshift structure shields its resident, a lanky man called Slim, from the elements — it can get cold at night, he says.

23/02/24
Author: 
David Renton
Trump

A long but highly educational and thought-provoking article from Tempest Magazine, published by Tempest Collective.

Jan. 31, 2024

23/02/24
Author: 
Steve Early
Insurgent labour

Feb. 17, 2024

Changing the leadership, structure, or functioning of any U.S. labor organization is no easy task. Activists and experts have long argued about whether dysfunctional unions are best reformed from the top-down, bottom up, or some mix of the two approaches.

20/02/24
Author: 
Mindy Isser, In These Times
The Brooklyn Basin development. Jane Tyska/Digital First Media via Getty Images

Feb. 18, 2024

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