Piper French

Jan 21, 2025 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson |Piper French |Sasha Abramsky |Lazo Gitchos

Environment / January 21, 2025 In Our New Climate Reality, There Is No Getting Back to NormalThe media is failing to warn us about the scale of the disasters that lie ahead. In Los Angeles, as everywhere, we need more than liberal technocratic tweaks. Ad Policy A blue Volkswagen van sits intact on a street amid homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, on January 15, 2025.

Dec 13, 2024 | thenation.com | Piper French

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Dec 11, 2024 | nybooks.com | Piper French

When I first spoke to David about the day US government agents took his son Arbi from him, the presidential elections felt a long way off. It was 2022 then, just before Thanksgiving. Sitting in his tiny apartment in San Diego, he cried as he recounted what an official had told him as he was forced onto a deportation flight in 2018: “Forget your son.” After they finally reunited in the US in 2021, it took Arbi months to treat him as a parent again.

Oct 8, 2024 | thenation.com | Ned Resnikoff |Piper French |Emma Hager

Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.

Sep 6, 2024 | imprintnews.org | Piper French

This article first appeared in Bolts and The Nation and is reprinted with permission. Last July, in the hillside neighborhood of Montclair, California, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price faced a church overflowing with people, many of whom blamed her for the crime in their neighborhoods, and said: “I am the person who is not supposed to be here.”Price was talking about her childhood.