The ‘In Real Time’ Archive

It’s Time, a work-in-progress, pen & ink on vellum embroidered on canvas

In 2022, Americans face two terrifying prospects: one, that accelerating climate chaos could render much of the Earth unlivable, and two, that the United States’ current political drift toward right-wing authoritarian rule could quickly become a steep slide, dashing our hopes for attaining a multiracial, pluralistic democracy. With “In Real Time”, Stan Cox and City Lights Books blog follow the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they work toward a livable path for all, no matter who will be wielding the levers of federal power.

Listen to the “In Real Time” podcast for audio editions of all dispatches.

In conjunction with “In Real Time,” Priti Gulati Cox will be working on an artwork titled It’s Time, adding drawings that expand the work outward, in concentric ovals, tracking the pivotal events of the next three and a half years.

Below are links to the dispatches so far. Please click on the image to see detail of individual drawings for the month with captions:

Part 18

Part 17

Part 16

Part 15

Part 14

Part 13

Part 12

Part 11

Part 10

Part 9

Part 8

Part 7

Part 6

Part 5

Part 4

Part 3

Part 2

Part 1

Click on “part 1”, “part 2” etc., to hear conversation about the dispatches between Stan Cox and Justin Podur published monthly on Justin’s blog The Anti-Empire Project.

• Part 11: Farm Bill Politics is Now Climate Politics
• Part 9 & 10: The Far Right Assault; and Gas Stoves
• Part 8: No Red Wave, but Plenty of Red Flags
• Part 7: A Thousand Rebellious Communities
• Part 6: Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
• Part 5: A Better Brand of Pessimism
• Part 4: Countering “Policy Murder”
• Part 3: The People vs Petrocracy
• Part 2: onslaught of the Oily Authoritarians
• Part 1: T-Junction Ahead

Books written by Stan Cox that are connected to In Real Time: ‘The Path to a Livable Future,’ and ‘The Green New Deal and Beyond,’ published by City Lights.