ESSAYS

"Feinstein Speaks: Trump May Be Out, and Why Democrats Need to Watch Spartacus." Medium, 18 March 2017. https://medium.com/@SusanZakin/why-democrats-need-to-watch-spartacus-33887cb046c6

Welcome to the Failed State of America. Medium, 24 February 2017.

https://medium.com/@SusanZakin/welcome-to-the-failed-state-of-america-1780ec96dcac

How Sick Twelve-Year-Olds Helped Me Find a Cure for Trump. Medium, 18 February 2017.

https://medium.com/@SusanZakin/sick-twelve-year-olds-finding-a-cure-for-trump-74e7eddb7274

How Do You Solve a Problem Named Milo? Medium, 11 February 2017.

https://medium.com/@SusanZakin/what-do-you-solve-a-problem-named-milo-8fe80dbc511

"Susan Zakin Does Not Regret...Only She Does (Kinda)." Medium, 20 January 2017.

https://medium.com/@SusanZakin/susan-zakin-does-not-regret-only-she-does-6629b4f1d8ce

“Zero Dark Thirty’ Kathryn Bigelow Shows Us The Things We Carried.” Truthdig, 11 January 2013. http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/zero_dark_thirty_kathryn_bigelow_shows_us_the_things_we_carried_20130111/

“The Season of Our Disillusionment.” Truthdig, 24 December 2012. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_season_of_our_disillusionment_20121224

“Suleiman’s Travels.” Truthdig 26 Sept. 2011. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/suleimans_travels_20110927/

“Men in the Dunes.” (Personal essay on Nature vs. the nature of the relationship between men and women.) Ecotone 2.2 (Spring 2007): 1-8. (Print only)

“The Ground You Fall Through: Environmental and social neglect left New Orleans on dangerous footing.” (Essay on Hurricane Katrina.) LA Weekly 9 Sept. 2005.

“Nature as defined by the bayou.” (Essay on Hurricane Katrina.) The Los Angeles Times 6 Sept. 2005.

“Mosquitos don’t discriminate.” (Op-Ed on personal experiences with malaria.) The Los Angeles Times 12 June 2005.

“A cold night and then things got frosty.” (Essay on friendship and rafting the Colorado River.) The Los Angeles Times 15 Feb. 2005.

“Postcard from the Redneck Riviera.” (Essay on hurricane season in Florida.) OnEarth Magazine Winter 2005.

“The Ecology of Fire: Why the empire wanted to burn so badly.” (Essay on Southern California wildfires.) LA Weekly 7 Nov. 2003.

“Darwin in Soho.” (Personal essay on extinction and shopping.) Mountain Gazette 81 (Mar. 2002): 30-31. (Print only)

“Help the land of the lemurs move forward.” (Op-Ed on regime change in Madagascar.) Christian Science Monitor 22 Feb. 2002.

“Goodbye to All That. Again.” (Personal essay on nostalgia, idealism, and the environmental movement.) Orion Magazine, 18 (Winter 1999): 88.

ARTICLES, Q&A, PROFILES

“The Failed State Chick on Boko Haram.” Truthdig, 24 May 2014. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_failed_state_chick_on_boko_haram_20140524

“Collapse of the Eighth Continent: Shangri-La Meets Global Capitalism.” Truthdig, 19 Dec. 2013. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/collapse_of_the_eighth_continent_20131220

“The French Method: How Africa’s Old Colonial Nemesis Fights Terrorism in the Sahara.” Truthdig, 23 Oct. 2013. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_french_method_how_africas_old_colonial_nemesis_fights_terrorism_in_the_

“The B Word: Republicans Fan the Flames of Ageism.” Truthdig, 9 July 2013. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_b_word_republicans_fan_the_flames_of_ageism_20130709

“Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist.” Truthdig, 20 May 2013. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/real_american_boy_how_our_byzantine_immigration_system_and_failed_economy_m

“Reports of Publishing’s Death Are Exaggerated.” Truthdig, 7 December 2012. http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/reports_of_publishings_death_are_exaggerated_20121207/

“The Day I Stopped Being an Environmental Writer.” 15 Oct. 2012. Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour. http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/the-day-i-stopped-being-an-environmental-writer-by-susan-zakin/

“Blue Man Coup: How Ghadafi’s Mercenaries Broke Mali.” Truthdig, 16 May 2012. First part of two-part series on Touareg uprising and military coup in Mali. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/blue_man_coup_how_gadhafis_mercenaries_broke_mali_20120516/

“Blue Man Coup, Part II: War for God, Country, and Cocaine.” Truthdig, 16 May 2012. Second part of two-part series on Touareg uprising and military coup in Mali. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/blue_man_coup_part_2_war_for_god_country_and_cocaine_20120517/

“Why Madagascar Matters.” The Huffington Post 24 Nov. 2010.

“America’s dance with a devil.” (Op-Ed on the need to bring Liberia’s former president to trial for war crimes.) The Los Angeles Times 27 Nov. 2005.

“Elephant Man.” (profile of Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey) Sierra Jan.-Feb. 2010.

“Kenya’s Constitutional Crisis: While press fixates on tribal conflict, Kenyans fight for their democracy.” LA Weekly 13 Jan. 2008.

“The Caged Lion: Environmentalist Rod Coronado returns to prison a decade after his radical heyday.” LA Weekly 8 Aug. 2006.

“Out of Africa.” (Arts) LA Weekly 12 July 2006.

“The Flight of the Condor: Can the giant birds survive Tejon Ranch development?” LA Weekly 18 Feb. 2005.

“The Invasion of the Elegant Trogons: Is the Sierra Club’s anti-immigration insurgency for the birds?” LA Weekly 2 Apr. 2004.

“The Burning Men: Forest fires rage in the West while politicians try to turn prevention into pork.” LA Weekly 4 Aug. 2003. (Reprinted on the Op-Ed page of the Tucson Citizen).

“Port in a Storm: Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade.” LA Weekly 24 Mar. 2003.

“The Gods of Small Things: The Center for Biological Diversity cares as much about the un armored three-spine stickleback as it does a cathedral forest of trees, which is why it is

reinventing the environmental movement and could be saving Southern California in the process.” LA Weekly 21 Nov. 2002.

“Paradise Lost – Again: The Bush Plan for the Environment.” LA Weekly 13 Nov. 2002.

“Delta blues: California struggles to get a massive restoration effort off the ground.” High Country News 30 Sept. 2002. (Print only)

“Riding the Line.” High Country News 9 Aug. 2002.

“Saving San Bruno Mountain: Butterflies and Bulldozers on an Island in Time.” Bay Nature Magazine Apr-May 2002.

“Kings of the Wild Frontier? Can 21^st-Century Problems be Solved with a 19^th-Century Game Plan?” Field and Stream Jan. 2001.

“Riders from Hell.” OnEarth Spring 2001.

“The Hunters and the Hunted: The Arizona-Mexico border turns into the 21st century fron tier.” High Country News 9 Oct. 2000. (Available online under “Border Lures the Young”)

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Sixth Extinction” (Part 2). Field & Stream Apr. 2000.

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Sixth Extinction” (Part 1). Field & Stream Mar. 2000.

“Illegal or Politics As Usual?” Salon 6 Jan. 2000.

"Nonpoint Pollution: The Quiet Killer." Field & Stream Aug. 1999: 84-88.

“Is Tiger Woods’ Father a Racist?” Salon 17 June 1999.

“The War Against Sprawl, Parts I and II.” Salon 21 Jan. 1999.

“Dismantling Progress: Conservation and the 104^th Congress.” Trout Winter 1999. (Print only)

“Shake-Up: Greens Inside the Beltway.” High Country News 11 Nov. 1996: 14.

“New Mexico: Conflict in Catron County.” Wilderness Winter 1995.

“Rare Bird in a Rare Land: Stalking the elusive Trogon elegans in Arizona’s spectacular Chiricahua Mountains.” The New York Times 12 Dec. 1993: sec. 5: 1, 18.

“Earth First! Everything changed the summer when the FBI arrested the environmental movement’s most charismatic leader.” Smart 5 (Sept-Oct 1989). (Print only)

“Reading the Smoke Signals.” Parenting Sept. 1989.

“Cyber-Punk: Performance Art on the Edge.” Vogue Dec. 1987.

“The Ominous Color of Toxic Dumping.” Sierra July/Aug 1987.

SYNDICATED COLUMNS

Tucson Weekly/Wick Communications

“Separate Suburbs.” Tucson Weekly 8 Sept. 2001.

“Gangsta Girl.” Tucson Weekly 2 Aug. 2001.

“The Burning River.” Tucson Weekly 19 July 2001.

“Double Vision.” Tucson Weekly 19 July 2001.

“Funk Factor.” Tucson Weekly 12 July 2001.

“The Wild Bunch.” Tucson Weekly 21 June 2001.

“Avoidance 101.” Tucson Weekly 14 June 2001.

“It’s Habitat, Stupid!” Tucson Weekly 7 June 2001.

“Politics of Extinction.” Tucson Weekly 31 May 2001

“Days of the Alpha Wolf.” Tucson Weekly 24 May 2001.

“Tit for Tat.” Tucson Weekly 17 May 2001.

“The Next Holocaust.” Tucson Weekly 10 May 2001.

“Historic Mistake.” Tucson Weekly 15 Mar. 2001.**

“Free Amy!” Tucson Weekly 22 Feb. 2001.

“Market Forces.” Tucson Weekly 15 Feb. 2001.**

“Yuppie Revolt.” Tucson Weekly 23 Aug. 2001.

“Hawker’s Thanksgiving.” Tucson Weekly 23 Nov. 2000.

** Prize-winning columns

Writers on the Range Syndicate

“Roadless Policy battle appears to be elaborate charade.” The Idaho Statesman 5 May 2001. (Print only)

“Where Are Those Darn Militias When You Need Them?” Colorado Central Magazine 73: (Mar. 2000): 2.

“Gore could have ridden West to victory.” Ouray County Plaindealer 30 Nov. 2000. (Print only)

“Wolves Deserve the West’s Protection” Idaho Statesman 21 July 2000. (Print only)

“I Saw the Best Wolves of My Generation Destroyed by Madness.” Grist 20 July 2000.

“Grazing Saddles West with a Heck of a Problem. “ Grist 26 Aug. 1999.

“Will the Military Protect the West’s Last, Best Place?” Grist 7 May 1999. (Reprinted in The Arizona Daily Star)

MAGAZINE COLUMNS

Sports Afield

“Terms of Endangerment.” Sports Afield June-July 1998

“The Forest Service Under Fire.” Sports Afield May 1998

“To Save the Salmon Save the River.” Sports Afield Apr. 1998

“Birds v. Jets (in the Florida Everglades).” Sports Afield Mar. 1998

“Who Can Save the Wild West?” Sports Afield Feb. 1998

“No Clear-Cut Answers in the Maine Woods.” Sports Afield Nov. 1997

“The Environmental President?” Sports Afield Winter 1997-98.

“Fenced Out: A Battle Rages Over The Right to Hunt.” Sports Afield Sept. 1997.

“The Steelhead Plan: Less Politics More Science.” Sports Afield June-July 1997.

“Small-Town Spin: 100 Ways to Get a Hunter’s Vote.” Sports Afield Nov. 1996.

“Election Forecast.” Sports Afield Oct. 1996.

“The Endangered Newts.” Sports Afield Sept. 1996.

“Funny Hats & Strange Bedfellows.” Sports Afield Aug. 1996.

“DC Update: Are Legislators Working?” Sports Afield July 1996.

“Breaking the Bear Poachers.” Sports Afield May 1996.

“Beyond National Parks.” Sports Afield Mar. 1996

“Back to the Pleistocene.” Sports Afield Feb. 1996

“Everybody’s Backyard.” Sports Afield Winter 1995-96.

“A Home on the Range.” Sports Afield Nov. 1995

“Timber Wars.” Sports Afield July 1995.

“Endangered Species Act.” Sports Afield May 1995.

“The Misguided War Over Refuges” Sports Afield Mar. 1995

BOOK REVIEWS

Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, by Barry Lopez, editor. The Los Angeles Times Book Review 8 Oct. 2006.

Journey Without Maps, The Lawless Roads, by Graham Greene. LA Weekly 19 July 2006.

“Dead Men Walking: Border crossings gone very, very wrong.” Rev. of The Devil’s Highway by Luis Urrea. LA Weekly 3 June 2004.

Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet, by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel. OnEarth Magazine Summer 2002.

All Our Relations: Native Struggle for Land and Life, by Winona LaDuke. New Mexico Historical Review 77.1 (Winter 2002): 100-101. (Print only)

ANTHOLOGIES

“Tierra Incognita.” Naked: Writers Uncover the Way We Live on Earth. Ed. Susan Zakin. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. ix-xv, 69-87.

“Rebel Yell in a Mall”, “Grazing: The Hard Facts”, and “How the Farm Bureau Lost its Overalls”. Living in the Runaway West: Partisan Views from Writers on the Range. Ed. High Country News. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishers, 2000. 27-28, 96-98, 121-123.

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