Waiting for the End

Peter Neil Carroll Jewish Currents
Fifty-some years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, we are still waiting for the end--not necessary of the world, but the US embargo. Poet Peter Neil Carroll recalls an October day when Paul Simon, relatively unknown, sang for a class of nervous students at Queens College and how a young Cuban today looks back at that moment.

Wonder Woman

Dana Stevens Slate
This delicately powerful superhero movie made me finally see the importance of female representation.

Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord

Hiroko Tabuchi and Henry Fountain The New York Times
Cities and states can reduce emissions in many ways, including negotiating contracts with local utilities to supply greater amounts of renewable energy, building rapid transit programs and other infrastructure projects like improved wastewater treatment.

America’s Broken Democracy

Jeffrey Sachs Project Syndicate
Behind the formal structures of a once-functioning democracy is a political system run by corporate interests with the cynical aims of cutting taxes on the rich, selling weapons, and polluting with impunity. In Trump, they have found a shameless frontman.

Trump Tells Earth to Go F**k Itself

President Trump withdraws from the Paris climate accord, making the U.S. one of three nations on earth to not participate in the deal.

Elián | Documentary

The remarkable story about Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida coast in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for simmering US and Cuban tensions. Review.

Macron Explains Paris Accord

French President Macron slams President Trump for withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord. It's not renegotiable.