Alexander Zaitchik

Alexander Zaitchik is freelance journalist living in New Orleans whose work has appeared at Rolling Stone, Grist, Salon, and elsewhere.
Alexander Zaitchik is freelance journalist living in New Orleans whose work has appeared at Rolling Stone, Grist, Salon, and elsewhere.
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News Saturday, July 06, 2019 As Brazil's Bolsonaro Wages War on the Amazon, Rainforest Communities Battle Climate Emergency The catastrophic loss of another fifth of Brazil's rainforest could happen within one generation. It's happened before. It's happening now. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 04, 2016 No, Hillary, Young Voters Aren't Naive. The System Doesn't Work for Them It is among the most venerable election rituals of the smartphone era: down the home stretch, a recording surfaces containing embarrassing audio of a candidate elite-’splaining politics to a room of rich, self-satisfied donors. In 2008, Barack Obama was caught talking in San Francisco about Rust... Read more |
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News Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Murder in the Rainforest: Local Activists and the Global Politics of Climate Change On the morning of December 5th, a dark piece of news began circulating at the U.N. climate talks in Lima: The body of José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a leading Ecuadorian indigenous-rights and anti-mining campaigner, had been found in a riverside grave near his village, his remains bound in rope,... Read more |