DOGE, EPA, and Terminated Grants

Impunity Politics

            Pearl River      Trying to really track the work of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Governmental Efficiency or DOGE isn’t easy, partly, as has already been established by countless reports, because much of the work is simply a magical mystery tour through government agencies.  What the heck, we ought to give it go when we …

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Hope in the Hustings

ACORN International Impunity Workers

            Kolkata            I first came to Kolkata with the Organizers’ Forum more than twenty years ago.  Unlike the megacities of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru, Kolkata seems largely unchanged so far, something like the old India.  The streets were full and pulsating as we came into town after midnight from the airport, which had seen an …

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