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Christopher Ketcham is a Truthdig contributor. He writes at Denatured, his journalism nonprofit. He’s the author of “This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West.”
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Death Before Inconvenience
Oct 1, 2025 A new book recounts the industry campaign to sell single-use packaging as an essential part of the postwar America dream — and how it created a hellscape of overflowing landfills and toxifying microplastics.
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The Roading of the Last Wild Places
Sep 16, 2025 Trump’s latest upending of conservation policy will be a disaster for wild landscapes and the creatures who live in them.
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The Mad Religion of Technological Salvation
Jul 25, 2025 In ‘More Everything Forever,’ astrophysicist Adam Becker exposes Silicon Valley’s insanity and explains why Mars isn't where we want to go.
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From Joseph Smith to Mike Lee: Two Centuries of Mormon Land Grabbers
Jul 14, 2025 Attempts to sell public land were cut from Trump’s budget bill. But the Mormon far right project of privatizing the American commons remains.
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Does the United Healthcare Assassination Augur a New Age of Political Violence?
Dec 10, 2024 The delighted reaction to the murder of a CEO points to a rise in radicalization.
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Eat, Pray, Pollute
Sep 26, 2024 In Barcelona and beyond, people are rising up against a tourism industry that strains infrastructures, commodifies culture and destroys ecosystems.
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Working for the Climate Clampdown in British Courts
Jul 9, 2024 Among Western democracies, the U.K. is at the vanguard in the crushing of environmental protest.
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The Whole Dam Truth
Apr 25, 2024 Hydropower projects are far from climate neutral and the downstream threats to indigenous sovereignty, biodiversity and marine ecosystems are significant and growing.
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Report: Israel Using AI to Write Kill Lists in Gaza
Apr 8, 2024 An artificial intelligence program called Lavender is being used for assassinations on a mass scale.
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The Seasons of Death for Wild Horses
Jan 18, 2024
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