Christopher Ketcham

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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FOR THE BIRDS

Forests Are Being Destroyed and ‘Nature Lovers’ Are Helping

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.

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JOKE’S ON US

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

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.

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CREATURE COMFORTS

Panic at the Supermarket as City Escapees Buy in Bulk

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

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VEBLEN GOODS

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

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

True Conviction?

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

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

Christopher Ketcham

Forests Are Being Destroyed and ‘Nature Lovers’ Are Helping

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

Panic at the Supermarket as City Escapees Buy in Bulk

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

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

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

Help Wanted: Biologists to Save the West From Trump

The 6th Great Extinction Is Your Fault

Anarchist for Trump: This Is Our America

Anarchists for Trump—Let It All Burn