Archive for October 2024

Academic journals are not immune from ideological bias.

I’d first driven by this land en route to elsewhere. When I saw the bunkers—over a thousand set upon the desert—I was so stunned by the terrain’s alien disfigurement that I stopped at an overpass to absorb the view. To my eye, the concrete bunkers were dystopian in their sum and structure and sprawl—scarring nine thousand acres of flat northeastern Oregon land.

Many pundits call this movement Christian nationalism. But while it may seem like a phenomenon born out of our current political moment, it represents the culmination of various movements with roots that trace back decades. The more extreme elements didn’t just materialize a few years ago. They’ve been there from the start.

Jennifer Piper – West Region program director for the American Friends Service Committee – cited a series of so-called “show your papers” laws passed in Colorado between 2006 to 2013, which led to some of the highest deportation numbers in the nation. “Here in Colorado, we already know what the policies of mass deportation look like intimately,” said Piper. “And what we found is our businesses suffered, our schools suffered, our kids suffered.”

The Guardian on Tuesday published an investigation about how rightwing forces successfully blocked a ballot measure that would have rolled back the Arkansas abortion ban ushered in by Roe’s demise. Alongside that story, we are also publishing this story about Little Rock Family Planning Services, and accounts from women who were served there.

A destroyed property in Barre, a town near Montpelier that endured the worst flooding in the region in 2023 and was hit by another flood in 2024.