Featured Articles from New Green Horizons
Greens, Mamdani, and Municipal Socialism
Introduction Hopeful signs are emerging in popular opposition to the toxic smog of Trumpism. One of the signature (and hopeful) political trends of 2025 has been the rise of democratic socialists to elected municipal office. This is most prominent with the election of...
Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth
A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee highlighted the need for further discussion around the party’s membership structure. At present, the national party is designed as a federation of state parties; that is, the...
A Political Paradox: A Progressive-Leaning Public Elects a Far-Right President
Originally posted in New Politics Winter 2025 (New Politics Vol. XX No. 2, Whole Number 78) and online at at https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-political-paradox/2Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international...
Nonviolence as an Ideal
As the Green politics movement was getting established during the 1970s and 1980s the conception of the Nonviolence pillar tended to be rather Gandhian. I’m in agreement with such. At the end of this article you can reference expositions of it by Jonathan Porritt...
Data Centers, Knowledge, and the Future of Eco-Socialism
The current wave of videos and articles about data centers, as well as my critical response here, all reside somewhere. To be precise, they reside in a data center. So do all the movies you pick from Netflix to watch in the evening. Nearly everything digital that is...
Broken by Design: Why San Diego and Cities Across America Need Choice Voting
Those of us who have spent years working toward a more just democracy understand something that most people learn only after years of frustration: the problem is rarely just the people in power. The problem is the system that puts them there and keeps them there. San...
The Green Party Should Support “No Kings” – and Plant Revolutionary Seeds
I joined my political party, the Vermont-based Peace & Justice Party, at the March 28 No King's Rally in Montpelier, Vermont. We are not affiliated with the Green Party (at least, not yet). However, I have been involved in the Green Party in Maryland and Virginia,...
Facing Up to What Confronts Us: The Politics of James Howard Kunstler
(Author’s Note: a version of this article appeared in the Green Horizon Magazine issue of Fall 2006.) Steve Welzer review of: The Long Emergency By James Howard Kunstler. Grove Press, New York, 2005. Our times are characterized by a growing sense of...
Edward Goldsmith: A Grandfather of the Green Politics Movement
[This article is excerpted and adapted from one having the same title that appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of Green Horizon Magazine.] “In 1966 it dawned upon me that the industrial society in which we live and that we take to be normal, desirable and permanent, is...
Ballot Access in New York State: Three Times Harder than in Putin’s Russia’s
It is currently nearly impossible for the Green Party of New York to place statewide candidates on the ballot and then enough votes for Governor or President to acquire ballot status. Green candidates for offices that are voted on statewide (President, US Senator,...
Federal Operation Inspires Mni Sota Makoce Surge of Love
This winter the people of Minnesota experienced an unprecedented and broadly condemned action by Homeland Security Department (DHS) police forces and its so-called “Operation Metro Surge.” Thousands of the over 400,000 people in my hometown of Minneapolis, and...
Your Favorite Podcast Wastes Your Time – And Our Collective Potential
While there are many political podcasts and online “independent media” shows commenting on current events, there is a dearth of podcasts on what should be, what ought to be. Many commentators speak with confidence and a sense of authority but are merely responding to...
Be Wary of the Hypocritical Psychobabble of Joe Rogan and Others Who Dismiss the Historic Importance of Activism
"These religions, these laws, these empires, these governments, this wisdom of states, this virtue of pontiffs - all of this is nothing but dream and lie, a circle of hypotheses that all converge upon one central point, itself devoid of reality. We must burst this...
A Key Book, a Challenge to Read: Review of Fredy Perlman’s Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
(this is adapted from an article that appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of Green Horizon Magazine) Steve Welzer review of: Against His-story, Against Leviathan! By Fredy Perlman. Detroit: Black & Red, 1983. Mohandas Gandhi wrote: “I myself am an anarchist,...
A Sobering but Hopeful Take on Mamdani’s Election
Editors' Note: This article was originally published in New Politics, Winter 2026 (New Politics Vol. XX No. 4, Whole Number 80), https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-sobering-but-hopeful-take-on-mamdanis-election/. I do not share the euphoria of so many progressives and...
Commentary on GPUS Sudan Proposal
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) National Committee is currently discussing Proposal 1277, "Proposal to Condemn the Ongoing Genocide in Sudan Urge US Designation of the Rapid Support Forces," sponsored by the GPUS Steering Committee. The genocide in Sudan...
Thoughts Regarding Social Transformation: Addressing Agency and Process
The 2025 Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City campaign demonstrated the success of social change work oriented toward mobilizing people as tenants, bus riders, parents, teachers, academics, sympathetic professionals, congregants, etc. Of course, the Spartacists...
“We have decided not to let each other die”: A Review of Takeover!
Takeover!: A Human Rights Approach To Housing is a new book authored by Cheri Honkala with the insights from members of The Poor People's Army, also known as the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). Takeover! argues a simple yet profound point:...
Greens, Mamdani, and Municipal Socialism
Introduction Hopeful signs are emerging in popular opposition to the toxic smog of Trumpism. One of the signature (and hopeful) political trends of 2025 has been the rise of democratic socialists to elected municipal office. This is most prominent with the election of...
Book Review: A Fleeting Glance by Madelyn Hoffman
Last month the New Green Horizons webzine offered an excerpt of a recently-published book written by Madelyn Hoffman, a co-chair of the US Green Party Peace Action Committee. Below is a review of the book by Steve Welzer. * * * * A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across...
The Simpler Way: Review of Ted Trainer’s The Conserver Society
Review of: The Conserver Society By Ted Trainer London: Zed Books, 1995. Where is the greenest place on earth? Sydney? Melbourne? The latter is the home of the Simplicity Institute, an education and research center “seeking to foster a transformation of...
Book Excerpt: A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across an Apartheid Wall Can Change Lives
New Green Horizons is pleased to be able to present an excerpt from a recently-published book of special interest: A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across an Apartheid Wall Can Change Lives By Madelyn Hoffman (c) 2025 Europe Books, London. The Prologue and the first...
Paul Goodman: Advocate of Community-Based Education
[Author's Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes below are taken from Paul Goodman’s contribution to the discussion volume Summerhill: For and Against (Hart Publishing Company, New York, 1970), pages 205-222.] Few American writers were more prolific than...
Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth
A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee highlighted the need for further discussion around the party’s membership structure. At present, the national party is designed as a federation of state parties; that is, the...
Reaching the Wayward Flock at No Kings Actions
On October 18, some seven million people in communities large and small demonstrated against the Trump regime under the banner "No Kings," in the largest protest in US history, according to No Kings Coalition organizers. Sometimes I wonder why the Greens have trouble...
No Nukes in New York!
On September 30, 2025, about 80 people gathered outside the Marriott Hotel in downtown Syracuse where Governor Kathy Hochul was holding a private meeting with nuclear industry representatives to strategize about expanding nuclear power in New York. They want to extend...
Lessons From Leftist Pandemic Disinterest Toward Rebuilding Public Health
In 2022-2023, the Biden administration rapidly dismantled the emergency social safety nets put in place during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Biden officials declared the pandemic to be over despite objections from experts, backpedaled from vaccine and mandate policy to...