Posts by Laura Paskus

Earlier this month the Biden administration publicly announced its decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.  To an American public watching the Russia-Ukraine war play out on television or across the rapid-fire and almost-always-top-of-the-page headlines of The New York Times, the war is typically portrayed as one of good versus evil, invader versus victim. These…

Who among us can forget April 2022 in New Mexico? It was dry. It was hot. It was windy as hell.  Months before the normal start to fire season, there were grass fires, forest fires, and fires along the Rio Grande in both Belen and Albuquerque.  Wildfires raged for months afterwards. But April was a…