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Mike Davis

Mike Davis is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

January 2021

  • House likely to take up impeachment aerticles against President Trump after Capitol seige<br>epa08926302 A supporter of US President Donald J. Trump and his baseless claims of voter fraud walks through the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after breaching Capitol security during their protest against Congress certifying Joe Biden as the next president in Washington, DC, USA, 06 January 2020 (issued 08 January 2020). On 08 January Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clarke said the House will move to impeach President Trump if the Vice President and Cabinet do not remove him on their own. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    With the Capitol riot the Trumpists have become a de facto third party

    Mike Davis
    The mayhem showed the party is splitting up but also lifted the curse of Trump from the careers of rightwing young lions

April 2020

  • Jane Fonda *21.12.1937- actress, USA with Angela Davis (left) during a demonstration against the war in Vietnam, Campus of the University of Los Angeles, California<br>(GERMANY OUT) Jane Fonda *21.12.1937- actress, USA with Angela Davis (left) during a demonstration against the war in Vietnam, Campus of the University of Los Angeles, California (Photo by ADN-Bildarchiv/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA's black and brown resistance

    In an extract from Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener look past the sun and surf to a radical fight for equality and justice

December 2018

  • Firefighters push a car from a garage as a wildfire fire burns a home in Malibu, Calif., on Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

    A tale of two wildfires: devastation highlights California's stark divide

    Some escaped Malibu by yacht while people fled Paradise on foot. But both cities face a brutal new normal, writes scholar and urban theorist Mike Davis

July 2011

  • A Chinese bank staff counts renminbi banknotes at a branch of the China Construction Bank in Hai'an

    Guardian Comment Network
    Crash Club – what happens when three economies collide

    Mike Davis for TomDispatch
    Mike Davis for TomDispatch: The three pillars of McWorld are shakier than we think, with the US, EU and China heading towards synchronised depression

April 2009

  • The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry's monstrous power

    Mike Davis
    Mike Davis: The Mexico swine flu outbreak should alert us to a highly globalised industry with global political clout
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