Sarah Lazare
Sarah Lazare is web editor at In These Times. She comes from a background in independent journalism for publications including The Intercept, Common Dreams, The Nation, and Tom Dispatch. She tweets at @sarahlazare.
Articles by this author
 |
Views Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Biden's Hawkish Foreign Policy Picks Are a Very Bad Sign There was no reason to think that a Biden administration would be to the left of the Obama administration when it comes to foreign policy. Biden comes with a long political career of supporting the wars of the United States and its allies, from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to Israel’s... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, September 16, 2020 "Colonizing the Atmosphere": How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis The climate disaster fueling unprecedented fires across the western United States, threatening to swallow the Marshall Islands into the ocean, and unleashing perennial hunger crises on South Sudan is a global catastrophe. But the global responsibility is not born equally... Read more |
 |
Views Sunday, June 28, 2020 First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You're Praised for Sending in Aid. The United Nations describes itself in its charter as an international moral authority created to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." But activists who are trying to end the U.S. war on Yemen say that, in a dark twist on this mission, the international body is withholding... Read more |
 |
Views Thursday, May 07, 2020 Covid-19 Is a Reason To Start the Green New Deal Now Our political leaders, Republican and Democrat, are leaving tens of millions of people in free fall. Instead of a guaranteed income and universal, single-payer healthcare, we are offered paltry, one-time checks and unemployment payments (for those who qualify—and many don’t, including all... Read more |
 |
Views Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Buttigieg and Centrist Dems Want a Military Response to Climate Change. That’s Dangerous. Mayor Pete Buttigieg says that if he were elected president, he would use the Department of Defense to fight climate change by creating “a senior climate security role in the Secretary of Defense’s office responsible for managing climate security risks” and boosting the Pentagon’s budget to “allow... Read more |
 |
Views Monday, January 06, 2020 To Stop Trump’s War with Iran, We Must Also Confront the Democrats Who Laid the Groundwork Since President Trump took office in 2017, the leadership of the Democratic Party has overwhelmingly supported the precursors to today’s dangerous U.S. escalation towards Iran: sanctions, proxy battles and a bloated military budget. Yet, now that we stand on the brink of a possible U.S. war of... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, August 07, 2019 Kentucky Miners Are Blocking a Coal Train for Back Pay. We Talked to One About a Just Transition. On July 29, coal miners in Cumberland, Kentucky began blocking a train carrying more than $1 million worth of coal to protest their former employer, Blackjewel LLC, which declared bankruptcy on July 1. According to CNN , the company wrote bad checks to 350 miners in Harlan County alone, prompting... Read more |
 |
Views Wednesday, July 17, 2019 The Media Uses Coal Miners To Attack the Green New Deal—Then Ignores Their Pension Fight Anna Attie, Eleanor Colbert and Daniel Fernandez contributed research to this report. To stave off the worst effects of the climate crisis, at least 80 percent of coal reserves must stay in the ground, according to a conservative estimate in the journal Nature. This means that coal miners would see... Read more |
 |
News Saturday, March 21, 2015 Judge Orders US Government to Stop Suppressing Evidence of Torture and Abuse A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to release more than 2,000 photographs showing abuse and torture of people detained by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan. The decision is the latest development in a more than 10-year-long legal battle , in which the American Civil... Read more |
|
Views Sunday, May 19, 2013 Nerds, Jocks & Conscientious Objectors: The Hidden World of Israel’s High School War Resisters When the 19-year-old Israeli war resister Noam Gur attends weekly demonstrations against the occupation of Palestine, the soldiers who suppress the protestors—with tear gas, stun grenades, and occasionally live fire—aren’t just strangers in uniform. Among them are her former high school classmates, who have been conscripted into the Israeli army. Read more |