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Is Your Halloween Candy Destroying the Rainforest?
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe trick-or-treaters who hit the streets on Wednesday night might spook a few people with their costumes. But the Rainforest Action Network is more freaked out by what’s...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Immigration Policy Will Hurt All Americans
In a bid to whip up his base in the closing days before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship. The move shifts focus from the thousands of...
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How Did Life Emerge?
How did life begin? Two common answers come to mind. One is that, at some point, a deity decided to suspend the laws of physics and will a slew of slimy creatures into being. A second is that a...
View ArticleThe Extinction of Wilderness
In 2016, an international team of scientists set out to determine how much of the earth’s land is still wild. They were alarmed at what they found: Deserts, grasslands, tropical and boreal forests are...
View ArticleWhy Does China Have So Many School Stabbings?
Americans have gotten uncomfortably familiar with the periodic tragedy of the mass shooting; in China, it’s the stabbing spree.Last Friday, a 39-year-old knife-wielding woman burst into the playground...
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Florida’s Referendum on Trump-Era Racism
The battle in Florida between Ron DeSantis, a Trumpist Republican congressman, and Andrew Gillum, a black progressive mayor, is one of the tightest and most high-profile gubernatorial races of 2018....
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Paul Ryan Wrote His Own Obituary, and It’s Delusional
Ever since he announced his retirement in April, Speaker Paul Ryan has largely avoided the limelight, emerging now and then to repel another far-right rebellion in the House or gently criticize...
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Can Megachurches Save El Salvador?
At a small jail outside San Salvador, Brother David Borja lifted his sunglasses to talk a guard into letting us inside. The cell, originally intended for temporary holding, smelled of sweat and urine....
View ArticleClimate Change Is Aggravating the Suffering in Yemen
When I asked Moosa Elayah to describe where he was born—a province in Yemen called Ibb—the first thing he said was “green,” which makes sense. Ibb, in the southwestern corner of the country, is the...
View ArticleHow the Roberts Court Caused Georgia’s Election Mess
Chief Justice John Roberts made a bold declaration on the state of American race relations in 2013. “Our country has changed,” he concluded in his majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, “and...
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Is a Liberal Takeover Afoot in Colorado?
Colorado voters won’t just be choosing elected officials when they go to the polls on Tuesday. They’ll be deciding, via a controversial ballot initiative, the future of the oil and gas industry in the...
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A Hopeless Election
Stumping for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams last week, former President Barack Obama made the case that Tuesday’s midterms were an existential test for the country. The midterms “may be...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Successful Anti-Gentrification Protest
Just two weeks ago, banners and stickers all over the neighborhood read, “Fuck off, Google.” Now, many simply say “Tschüss” (“Bye”).In November 2016, the tech giant announced plans for a seventh Google...
View ArticleThe Kafkaesque Machinery of the Death Penalty in America
The Supreme Court, its conservative majority in place for years, no longer debates whether state-imposed death is morally right or constitutionally valid. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation last...
View ArticleIt Was a Big, Beautiful Blue Wave
Only two hours after election results started trickling in, CNN correspondent Jake Tapper brought the gavel down. “This is not a blue wave,” he declared. “This is not a wave knocking out all sorts of...
View ArticleAmerica Voted. The Climate Lost.
The last two years in American politics have spelled trouble for the global climate, thanks largely to the Trump administration. And the next two years probably won’t be much better, given the results...
View ArticleThe Unlearned Lessons of the Beirut Barracks Bombing
The man drove his truck up the road. Plowing through flimsy wire fencing, he veered through the lot, and shot towards a building in the back.He smiled. And then he blew up the building. Using around...
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What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us?
There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the...
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Is Climate Bipartisanship Dead?
In 2016, two members of Congress—one Republican and one Democrat—decided they wanted to end partisan gridlock over global warming. So, in partnership with the advocacy group Citizens’ Climate Lobby,...
View ArticleThe Agony and Malice of Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions, who resigned on Wednesday, ranked as one of the most regressive political figures to ever lead the Justice Department. The ousted attorney general spent the last two years reshaping...
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