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Eric Scigliano

Eric Scigliano has written on varied environmental, cultural and political subjects for many local and national publications. His books include Puget Sound: Sea Between the Mountains, Love War and Circuses (Seeing the Elephant), Michelangelo’s Mountain, Flotsametrics and the Floating World (with Curtis Ebbesmeyer), The Wild Edge, and, newly published, The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon and a Race to Save the Planet.
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The Ugly Historical Echoes in JD Vance’s Pet Stories

Vance and QAnon have reprised, in petty, clownish, and in Vance’s case furry, four-footed form, the mother of all conspiracy theories: the blood libel against Jews.
Elsewhere

A Once-Vital Remote Island Asset is in the Geo-Political Crosshairs Again

“Welcome to N.A.F. Adak, Alaska/Birthplace of the Winds,” reads the sign greeting passengers on the twice-weekly Alaska Airways flights from Anchorage. The first time I arrived, in 2003, it read simply “the Winds”; the winds had blown away the rest of it. Like so much on the island, it’s been patched back together.
Politics

Of Presidential Shootings and Iconic Images

That defiant Trump image seems bound to haunt an already tumultuous campaign season, tilting prospects even further in Trump’s favor.
Trump-Biden Debate

Ten Observations About Where we go After the Debate

If Biden pulls out, qualms about age and decrepitude immediately turn, like Elmer Fudd’s shotgun, back onto Trump. He’s not aging well either.
Trump-Biden Debate

Frail? Certainly. But Command of the Facts

I was pleasantly surprised (starting from very low expectations) how much he recalled and how cogently he recited it. The downside to all the prepping is too much detail and no zingers.
International

What Would a “Serious” Country do about Ukraine?

Run out the clock long enough and there will be no problem, and no independent Ukraine, to worry about. This is at the very least not a serious Republican party. But there is a Democratic component as well.
Business

Hi, I’m Julie, and I Want to Buy Your House: The Institutional Investors Buying Up America’s Homes

Hedge funds, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, even Alaska’s state fund have piled into the American housing market, joining and outbidding traditional smaller landlords.
Humor

Your Car’s Too Big!

Don’t want you ’cause your car’s too big. Can’t use you ’cause your car’s too big. I really hate you ’cause your car’s too big!
Politics

An Open Letter to Jill Biden

I’m talking of course about The Question: Should Joe run? Or, Why on Earth is Joe running? In the latter formulation, it’s a question you might be better able to answer than anyone else. And, to put it crudely, you may be the only one who can talk him back from this abyss.
Environment

Saving Seattle’s Heritage Trees (But at the Expense of Losing Many Others?)

Seattle has long tried to preserve its grand old trees. One ironic outcome is that the Heritage Tree Program is now up in the air. We may have saved the largest trees at the cost of thousands of others.
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