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Alexander Zaitchik

Alexander Zaitchik is freelance journalist living in New Orleans whose work has appeared at Rolling Stone, Grist, Salon, and elsewhere.

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Amazon rainforest

As Brazil's Bolsonaro Wages War on the Amazon, Rainforest Communities Battle Climate Emergency

"We know what happens when the state does nothing. We know how quickly the forest can disappear."

Alexander Zaitchik · Jul 6, 2019

No, Hillary, Young Voters Aren't Naive. The System Doesn't Work for Them

Clinton thinks Bernie Sanders supporters, who live in their ‘parents’ basements’, don’t know any better. That’s a dangerous blind spot

Alexander Zaitchik · Oct 4, 2016

Murder in the Rainforest: Local Activists and the Global Politics of Climate Change

At the U.N.'s latest climate talks, indigenous tribes showed again that they're frontline allies in the climate fight. So why aren't we protecting them?

Alexander Zaitchik · Dec 17, 2014

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