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Christopher Ketcham is the author of This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West. He writes at Christopherketcham.com and is seeking donations to his new journalism nonprofit, Denatured. He can be reached at christopher.ketcham99@gmail.com.

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Forests Are Being Destroyed and ‘Nature Lovers’ Are Helping

FOR THE BIRDS

The New Jersey Audubon Society stands arm in arm with big-money interests in support of deforestation. But they’re not the only “green” group to do so.

Christopher Ketcham | Published Aug 19, 2022
opinion

The Boogaloos Are Pitching a Big Tent for Far-Right Violence

JOKE’S ON US

Future oppressors are often viewed as bumbling idiots. But if we are too complacent, hindsight may show us to be the fools, blind to the threat.

Christopher Ketcham | Published Jan 16, 2021
opinion

Panic at the Supermarket as City Escapees Buy in Bulk

CREATURE COMFORTS

“I think they’re Airbnb owners who are now using their Airbnbs themselves. They’ve got money, credit cards, and it’s just swipe.”

Christopher Ketcham | Published May 10, 2020
opinion

The Leisure Class Is Winning. The Rest of Us Are Suffering.

VEBLEN GOODS

If the sanitation workers disappear, it would be an unholy mess, our cities unlivable. Why is the baseball player paid so highly while the sanitation worker is not?

Christopher Ketcham | Published Mar 16, 2020

The False Conviction of the D.A. Turned Reality Star

True Conviction?

Just after Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi parlayed her success as a Brooklyn ADA into a new career as a true-crime TV host, an appeals court reversed one of her signature murder convictions.

Christopher Ketcham | Published Feb 10, 2018

White House’s Cowboy Allies: All the Pretty Horses Must Die

STAMPEDE

The administration’s solution to the problem of overbreeding mustangs on public lands is round up and slaughter, but this ignores more benign solutions.

Christopher Ketcham | Published Sep 10, 2017
opinion

Help Wanted: Biologists to Save the West From Trump

Regulatory Capture

The West needs public servants to ‘blow through the BS and politics, follow the agency mission, laws, and best science, and find ways to dodge the pressure to do otherwise.’

Christopher Ketcham | Published Jun 16, 2017

The 6th Great Extinction Is Your Fault

LITANY FOR THE DEAD

‘Billions of years to evolve such magnificent creations, now being decimated by humans in the blink of an eye, with no regard for beauty or life itself.’

Christopher Ketcham | Published Dec 31, 2016
opinion

Anarchist for Trump: This Is Our America

MAN IN THE MIRROR

A Sanders supporter reflects on, and makes no apologies for, his vote for Trump in November.

Christopher Ketcham | Published Nov 13, 2016
opinion

Anarchists for Trump—Let It All Burn

Enough!

The left-contrarian arsonist crowd is larger and wider-spread than the cubicled creatures in the Clinton campaign have accounted for.

Christopher Ketcham | Published Jun 09, 2016

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