The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/perspectives/editorial)
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reflects on events that unfolded this weekend. As bombs fell and political justifications followed, Venezuelan civilians paid the price. Venezuela is not an abstraction or a geopolitical chessboard, but a real place, filled with real people whose lives were extinguished without warning. This editorial examines power, accountability, and the moral cost of treating distant suffering as disposable.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott examines the case of Shiloh Hendrix, a Minnesota woman who called a five-year-old child a racial slur and subsequently received more than $750,00 in support from white supremacists, including racist Heathens.
In an age where religious minorities — especially Pagans — already face real marginalization, suspicion, and in some cases, violence, Brooks’s carelessness, and by proxy, The New York Times’s carelessness for publishing it with little editorial concern, is irresponsible.
Until now the Christians have had to suffer in silence. Now, thanks to the Trump administration, they can complain in anonymity.
Transgender Americans have been under unrelenting assault since the Trump administration entered office. But queer lawmakers in Montana led their Republican-dominated legislature to defeat two anti-trans bills this week, proving this is no time for despair.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the Trump administration’s first week of energy policy and the effects it is likely to have on the environment. Spoiler: it’s bad!