Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich’s most recent books include The Way to the Spring, based on his reporting from the West Bank, and Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, which was awarded an American Book Award in 2021.

It’s Time to Pay Our Climate Debt to Countries Like Mozambique

It’s Time to Pay Our Climate Debt to Countries Like Mozambique It’s Time to Pay Our Climate Debt to Countries Like Mozambique

As a start, the US and other Western countries must help rebuild the vast areas destroyed by Cyclone Idai.

Apr 22, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

The Road to Climate Catastrophe Runs Through a City Called Commerce

The Road to Climate Catastrophe Runs Through a City Called Commerce The Road to Climate Catastrophe Runs Through a City Called Commerce

But, if we listen carefully, the solutions to the climate crisis also come from Commerce.

Mar 26, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation

But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news.

Mar 1, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Honduran migrant at the border

The Hidden Climate-Change Story Behind Trump’s ‘National Emergency’ The Hidden Climate-Change Story Behind Trump’s ‘National Emergency’

Walls and borders are this country's most consistent climate-change ‘adaptation.’

Feb 15, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Greece Wildfires

To Those Who Think We Can Reform Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis To Those Who Think We Can Reform Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Our only hope is to stop exploiting the earth—and its people.

Jan 15, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

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Letters From the January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue Letters From the January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue

Fuzzy math… Where there’s smoke… The real George Bush… Thanks, but no thanks (web only)…

Jan 10, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers and Ben Ehrenreich

Paradise, California wildfire

The Fire This Time The Fire This Time

California’s Camp Fire is a reckoning, an alarm shrieking that our leaders won’t save us from climate change—but perhaps we can.

Nov 15, 2018 / Editorial / Ben Ehrenreich

Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance

Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance

It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child.

Dec 24, 2017 / Editorial / Ben Ehrenreich

Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars

Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars

Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?

Sep 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich

Three Walls

Three Walls Three Walls

In the shadow of a wall, every house is different.

May 25, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich

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