Christopher D. Cook
Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning journalist and author of Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis. Cook has written for Harper's, The Economist, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere. See more of his work at www.christopherdcook.com.
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Views Monday, October 14, 2019 The Problem With the Blue Angels Each October, a couple weeks before the faux frights of Halloween, the Bay Area is treated to a truly terrifying aerial bombardment. Air force jets shred and scream through the sky and dive-bomb in acrobatics that come perilously close to buildings, neighborhoods, and thousands of people. In an era... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 09, 2019 Only Bernie’s Green New Deal Answers Greta’s Call for Action In a bit of reverse parenting, the young climate strikers are teaching the rest of us an embarrassingly obvious lesson in moral clarity and courage. Mobilizing more than 7 million people across 185 countries September 20–27—with about 1,000 actions in the United States alone—youth struck a... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 The Democrats Need a Clear Economic Vision. Here's Where to Start As the newly Democratic-controlled House of Representatives enters office in January, the People's Budget presents an immediate opportunity for Democrats to support a bold, concrete plan for creating living-wage jobs and rebuilding America's corroded and unsustainable infrastructure. Read more |
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Views Friday, December 07, 2018 The Mean, Rough Legacy of George H.W. Bush The triumphal and counter-factual celebrating of President George H.W. Bush as an “honorable” leader who evoked kindness and “civility” raises a potently crucial question: What does it mean to be civil and kind in person and in word, yet brutal in policy and deed? Despite the gentlemanly veneer,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 22, 2018 Protesters Take to the Streets to Demand Green New Deal From Democrats Donning particle masks in the smoke-fogged air Tuesday morning, dozens of protesters urged Bay Area congressional representatives Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee to endorse a Green New Deal select committee that could create millions of jobs combating the climate crisis. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 17, 2018 To Address the Climate Crisis, We Must Completely Rethink How We Produce and Consume Food The clock on climate upheaval is ticking fast with little time to lose, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made frighteningly clear last week. “Limiting global warming to 1.5ºC would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” the October 8... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 14, 2018 Brown, Bloomberg (and Their Agenda) Face Protests at Climate Action Summit As Governor Jerry Brown and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened the Global Climate Action Summit Thursday, they were greeted by hundreds of protesters and direct action outside Moscone Center, led by the indigenous and frontline communities hit hardest by climate chaos. For nearly... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 04, 2017 Can the Democrats Save Themselves? Beyond Hillary Clinton’s epic unraveling in 2016, the Democratic Party has been amassing electoral corpses for years. Since President Obama’s 2008 win, the party has lost both houses of Congress and more than 1,000 state legislative seats. Republicans now control both the governorship and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Why the Democrats Won't Wake Up Moments after rightwing Republican Karen Handel won America’s costliest congressional race ever in Georgia’s sixth district, the de rigueur post-election quarrelling erupted: Why did Democrat Jon Ossoff lose, and what does it mean for the Democrats and American politics? Many on the left bemoaned... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 29, 2017 Trump Labor Secretary Acosta’s Deadly Agenda for Workers With the Senate’s confirmation of new Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta Thursday night on a 60 to 38 vote—with a full eight Democrats in support—the Trump administration’s plans to decimate workers’ rights and protections begins in earnest. Acosta inherits an already-embattled Labor Department... Read more |