Imagining a World With no Bullshit Jobs: An Interview with David Graeber
One reason bullshit jobs endure is that they are politically convenient for a lot of powerful people. - David Graeber
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Marching for Peace: From Afghanistan to Hiroshima
“Everybody thinks they will be killed soon, the situation for those alive is miserable. If you don’t die in the war, the poverty caused by the war may kill you, which is why I think the only option left for me is to join the peace convoy.” - Abdullah Malik Hamdard, Afghan peace walker
Damming Muskrat Falls: Land and River Protectors in Canada Recharge the Debate on Mega-Dams
Almost twenty years ago I made an eleven-day canoe journey down one of North America’s grandest rivers, the Grand River in Labrador, Canada. Our guides were four indigenous elders who had grown up traveling the river. We listened to their stories. We ate porcupine and goose and salmon. The trip ended at Muskrat Falls, where we hauled our canoes up a trail that had been used for generations by the region’s indigenous people. Today, Muskrat Falls is the site of a 12-billion-dollar mega hydroelectric project; the falls no longer exist.
Benin: A Launchpad and Home for African Migrants
This is the fifth year in a row that nearly 1,000 migrants have died or gone missing crossing the Mediterranean. Nearly 48,000 asylum-seekers and migrants have reached Europe’s shores in the first six months of 2018. Many of them passed through Benin on their way to Europe.
Three Failing Experiments? Mine, America’s, and Humanity’s
Each of us might, sooner or later, be thought of as a kind of failed experiment that ends in the ultimate failure: death. And in some ways, the same thing might be said of states and empires.
The Transatlantic Trump Effect
If Trump's aggressive style and populist impulses have encouraged his political soulmates abroad, they've also provoked a backlash in defense of democratic norms.