Peter Coyote
Transmitted Zen teacher, author, narrator (28 yrs w/ Ken Burns,author of 5 bks, used-to-be movie actor, politically engaged-orchestrated the first protest ever invited into the White house and worked for eight years for governor Jerry Brown
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 28, 2026
Latest issues
NO PARTY (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The chat on MS-Now this morning was about Mara Gay’s (NY Times editorial) trip to Texas border country. She’s an extremely smart, able, and observant reporter, and while describing the mix of emotions and issues vexing voters and erasing easy Party distinctions, she reported that a common theme she heard expressed was, ”I feel like I don’t have a Party.” I admit to being a political nerd, awakened during the McCarthy years as the government came after family and friends; prodded further by the C
Two Stories for Pete Hegseth (opens the original)
Read excerpt
ONEDuring the American Revolutionary war, the Brits hired Hessian mercenaries, professional battle-hardened and blooded soldiers to terrify the colonists. Their huge bodies towered over the Welsh tin-miners, bandy-legged Irish potato farmers, indentured servants and motley crew the colonists assembled to fight for their liberty. The Hessian’s were renowned as masters of disciplined bayonet charges. They had been drilled extensively in European-style fighting tactics, disciplined volley fire, agg
Do We Have Any Idea How Big 3.4 Trillion Is? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Most of us have no idea of the size of a billion dollars, let alone a trillion. Here’s a little meme to help the imagination grasp the staggering size of a trillion. 1 MILLION seconds is 11.6 days, OK? 1 BILLION seconds is 31.7 years. Getting the picture? A TRILLION seconds is 31,500 years. If you wanted to count our current National debt of $39.4 trillion dollars, and you counted a number a second, twenty-four hours a day without eating or sleeping, it would require 1 million 250,00 years, six
A letter to Donald Trump by Israeli Senior Security Officials (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Red Alert: Escalating West Bank violence endangers Israeli security, U.S. interests, and regional stabilityJuly 27, 2026by CISThanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<div c
Malice in Wonderland (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The prep-school boys have done it again. They refused ‘standing’ to the 20-odd States suing to stop Trump’s plans to use the Post Office to withhold mail-in ballots to anyone not on Trump’s ‘official’ voter-lists; list he gets to assemble, organize according to his self-interest. The Supreme Court, in its wisdom, denied standing, on the grounds that no harm has yet been suffered by the plaintiffs. Have they forgotten what occurred on Jan 6th, due to Trump’s lies about rigged elections? Have they
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.