Sarah is an author, artist and speaker on topics as seemingly diverse as Afghanistan, World Mythology, kleptocracy and the Natural World.
My head is exploding. I don’t know why Greenland is doing it, when so much else could. But Greenland is a fine place to start. Also gibberish—which is what much of the reporting and commentary about current developments sounds like to me. The idea that “acquiring Greenland” can be called a “national security priority,” as the White House press secretary purported on Jan. 6, is gibberish. Yet…
Evan Vucci for AP via The New York Times What more to say? Since January 20, we have experienced a distillation of all the kleptocracies...
And so we enter a new era, likely to last several decades at least. I spent Nov. 6 walking a cobbled beach through the fog, a...
(Or, "It's Official: The Supreme Court Ignores Its Own Precedent") I promised a post on the Supreme Court's recent decision granting...
I can't claim credit for the following post; it's the brainchild of a friend of mine, the most brilliant analyst of democracy -- and what...
As I was halfway through writing this essay, the Supreme Court decision came down granting Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for...
California Senator Diane Feinstein, may she finally rest, died in office on September 28. That’s how she wanted it. She clove to that...
Addendum appended 21 August, 2023 In these days of double-standards and the blurring of lines — between true and not true, right and...
“Russia has dealt another blow to the world’s most vulnerable,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said upon...
by Lisa Hupp, courtesy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Before I get into what I intended to write this morning, a word about the federal...
(Photo by Anne Way Bernard, courtesy of Appalachian Voices) So. This weekend, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law suspending the...
Monotropa uniflora ("Ghost Pipe") does not photosynthesize. It lives on tree-energy, transmitted via underground mycorrhizal networks....
Updated 16 May, 2023 Did you hear about the Supreme Court decision? I’m not talking about Dobbs, or last month’s emergency stay allowing...
Jubilation on the left side of the American political spectrum has hardly worn off in the wake of the midterm elections. And why not? ...
So. Ayman al-Zawahiri is killed at last. Ayman al-Zawahiri, mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, successor to Usama bin Laden at...
How to count the questions raised by the gob-smacking moment unfolding around us? Here’s one that’s been plaguing me. By what kind of...
Updated 27 May, 2022 First, a word on guns. I am disgusted with us, and our strange addiction to them. Like many of you, I suspect, I...
A recent post by the brilliant Martin Shaw got me thinking about my old sparring partner, Midas. Shaw is a myth-sayer — the best, the...
(If NATO Provides Safe-Havens For Its Fighters) When Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on February 24, its people astonished the world...
Months after the United States lost the longest war it ever fought — well before the shocking outbreak of hostilities in Europe displaced...