The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

Using a variety of ploys to manufacture doubt, a whole industry of science-for-hire experts helps corporations put profits over public health and safety.

Marcuse Today Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man looks more prescient than its author could have imagined.

Contrary to the boosterism of billionaires, the need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed. And the arguments aren’t good.

The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.

April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

How Not to Tell the History of Science Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

Whose Anthropocene? Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

The Case for Abolishing Elections They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.