Family Feud

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.
Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences

Two Poems

The stones are endlessly weeping in the dark. Or is it
the bird-chatter of rain. O darling, are you writing
another poem about trees? No, not trees but ghosts
that live on trees and their legend of never-let-gos.
Iraq, Twenty Years Later

How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.
What Will It Take to Save Democracy?

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it’s the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.
Father of War

Editors’ note: Some names in this story have been changed to protect confidentiality. My nine-year-old son Jackie first attacked me at the end of a beautiful day, on vacation in a house by a lake. The trip started out hopefully. For the first time in seven months, we’d left the home that had become our […]
Yes, Tax the Rich—and Also the Merely Affluent

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
Kaitiakitanga

In December, around the time that would’ve once been Christmas, the tide brought in car parts, most so waterlogged they were unusable. Whiti almost cried when she found a fully intact fan motor, but the rust damage to the armature was too extreme; it was holding together but she knew it wouldn’t last under stress. […]
A Body of One’s Own

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.