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The Politics of Hunger
Famine as political technology. From Churchill's Bengal to Stalin's Ukraine, from Mao's China to today's Gaza and Sudan, the same patterns emerge with mechanical precision.
Gael MacLean
9 min read


The Mathematics of Loss
A meditation on personal and planetary grief, exploring how love persists when its objects—mothers, ecosystems—fade beyond recovery.
Gael MacLean
8 min read


The Architecture of Cruelty
How much do we all contribute to the culture of cruelty that is taking over the world?
Gael MacLean
7 min read


The Arithmetic of Emergency
A volunteer firefighter chronicles the brutal arithmetic of climate change in the American West—uninsurable homes, dying wells, and a democracy distracted.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


The Red Button and the Child's Desk
This is the story of how we got here—from children practicing death under school desks to adults electing someone who treats nuclear war like prime-time television.
Gael MacLean
6 min read


The Art of Looking Back
On the necessity of turning away to survive, and the greater necessity of turning back. A meditation on witness, trauma, and our shared humanity.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


The Politics of Cruelty
An examination of how cruelty transforms from political liability to credential, and what this evolution reveals about America's democratic future.
Gael MacLean
6 min read


The Red Hat Fits: My Three Years Inside
How ordinary people join cults: A deeply personal look at the psychology behind political radicalization and why no one is immune to manipulation.
Gael MacLean
12 min read


Sympathy For The Devil: A Dark Mirror to Our Times
Exploring how the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" prophetically warned of moral ambiguity and human complicity in evil across history to our present day.
Gael MacLean
3 min read


When Up Becomes Down: Spotting DARVO Before It Traps You
This mind-bending experience has a name: DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It's not just frustrating; it's a calculated manipulation tactic that warps reality and shifts blame with devastating effectiveness.
Gael MacLean
13 min read


Democrats are Playing Football - Republicans are Playing Chess
I am one of those who believe Chuck Schumer made the right decision. To equate a shutdown now with previous shutdowns is magical thinking.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


The Great Heist of 2025: Endgame
In this strategic simulation, players take on the role of a shadowy cabal working to orchestrate the greatest heist in human history.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


Is This the America You Want?
America just did the unthinkable — siding with Russia to block UN resolutions that condemned the Ukraine invasion.
Gael MacLean
7 min read


Speaking Truth to Power
Those of us who struggle to keep the light alive recognize what matters in our hearts, even when words fail.
Gael MacLean
2 min read


Hurting US Farmers Hurts Us All
Right now, thousands of American farmers are caught in a perfect storm of frozen funds, canceled programs, and uncertain futures.
Gael MacLean
3 min read


US Treasury’s Digital Fortress
Every cybersecurity expert I know is seriously freaked out. If the Treasury falls, America’s power falls with it.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


God Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The God I know says Do No Harm in thought, speech, or actions. Simple words.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


Beyond the Dream: The Unfinished Revolution
The Poor People's campaign wasn't a GoFundMe, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott wasn't a Twitter hashtag.
Gael MacLean
2 min read


How American Corporations Killed the Golden Goose
In 1886, J.C. Bancroft Davis, doing what we would now call data entry, wrote that corporations were "persons" under the 14th Amendment.
Gael MacLean
8 min read


The Truth About Wolves
They didn’t come for my sheep. They came for her. The white wolf. I felt her spirit leave. She went home. With her wolves. Her family.
Gael MacLean
3 min read
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