Americans have pursued terrorism since 2001, but what we’ve really achieved is a great crusade without end, both in lives lost and profit gained.
In America, Fear Will Be the Death of Us All
The American Reality is fear, and fear alone. Despite the change of location, or face, or reason, there is one thing that binds us.
All I Want for Christmas: These Sustainable Goals for America’s Fragile State
Confronting America’s deeper issues means looking at it through its fragility, rather than the superpower status it cultivates.
America: A Land of Violence, Doomed to Repeat
Again, extreme violence has punctured the American landscape. But expecting change illustrates a complete ignorance of history. It repeats, because America allows it to.
Reflections on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Broken Mirror Held Up to America
Sacha Baron Cohen’s undressing of modern America has gone viral, but all that glitters is not gold. Looking back on the first episode of Who Is America?
I Just Can’t Anymore
John S. Blake reflects on this Fourth of July and reviews the current state of affairs and questions our definition of what it means to be independent and American.
School’s In: Targeting Toxic Masculinity After the Texas School Shooting
With the Texas school shooting motivated by masculinity’s inability to process rejection, the challenge is not necessarily in taking the gun out of their hands but removing the thought from their minds.
The Mountains Are Calling
Why Americans need to stand our ground and get our hands dirty for public lands.
Yes, Donald Trump, This Is Brexit
The winning vote for a Donald Trump Presidency has seen cries that democracy has failed and strong rejection from those opposed. It seems that nothing was learned from Brexit, right?
Congratulations, America: You Wanted Trump, You Got Him
Editor-in-Chief, Greg Gerding, weighs in on the 2016 presidential election results while looking back on the one-year anniversary of The Big Smoke America. Oh, what a year it’s been.
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