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Compared to the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California remains relatively healthy. An expanding oil and gas industry in Mexico will put an end to that, and endanger the lives of native fauna that have managed to thrive there.
In our new issue, Natalia Mendoza follows the proposed natural gas pipelines making their way from Texas through Mexico and to the Sonora coast, spoiling the land, air, and water at every step.
As the country splits apart in the aftermath of 9/11, so, too, does a CIA operative’s family in a new novel that, as Michael Barron writes, marries the novel of ideas with the novel of feelings.
“At every step of the way, gas escapes into the atmosphere: Midstream transport accounts for roughly half of the methane emissions associated with fossil gas.”
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The United States never treated AIDS as a national emergency. Back in 2021, Debra Levine wrote on the parallels between that epidemic and Covid-19: the government inaction, the disrupted mourning, the public denialism.
The rapid expansion of Mexico’s fossil-fuel infrastructure comes at a steep cost, and the communities in the path of a pipeline pay dearly. In our new issue, Natalia Mendoza explains how the industry neutralizes resistance.
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Fuck buc-ees all the way back to Texas
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“Vollmann’s work is often preoccupied with the moral calculus of violence and the otherness of people engaged with or ravaged by war, poverty, and maladies atypical to those experienced by his readership.”
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Along the path of fossil fuel from Texas to Sinaloa, many courageous people who are fighting to protect their world.
AI is often presented as a replacement for menial work, just as computers were in the 1970s. But as Michael Waters writes, the human labor never goes away—it’s just made more precarious.
Along the path of fossil fuel from Texas to Sinaloa, many courageous people who are fighting to protect their world.
In ACT UP, belonging and care was not conferred by blood or soil. Care was offered when you joined others on the street with the intent to bring the AIDS crisis to an end.
William T. Vollmann has paid a high price for his iconoclasm.
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“Data-entry work was plucked out of the American office and kicked to ever-more-vulnerable groups of workers, who lacked basic protections or the ability to bargain for better wages.”
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“As Buc-ee’s has expanded outside Texas, it has sought massive tax breaks from local governments, many of them small towns desperate for any kind of economic development.”
