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Columbus Day: Not a day of hope for the environment
Jeremy Lent
The Columbus mindset is the same one that is driving our global civilization toward environmental catastrophe
The case for de-extincting Ice Age megafauna
Katherine DM Clover
Humans helped kill off the giant animals of the Ice Age. We owe it to the ecosystem to restore what we destroyed
Better call Becerra: The planet’s lawyer
Nathanael Johnson
California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, plans to keep the Trump administration tangled up in the courts
Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles
Andrew Maynard
Travel to Mars may come sooner than you think, but questions and complications are numerous
6 reasons post-Maria Puerto Rico could be Katrina-like
Grist Staff
Here are six factors that contribute to making the current disaster in Puerto Rico especially dire
Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
Gregory J. Carbone
Americans tend to rely on their political leanings while others are more scientifically-savvy about climate change
The enormous cost of more nuclear weapons
Guy T. Saperstein, Kelsey Abkin
Is the expansion of our nuclear arsenal in America's best interest, or is it just Trump's latest boastful display?
James Inhofe blames “sanctuary cities” for Las Vegas shooting
Charlie May
Inhofe says Congress can't do anything to prevent gun violence in America and instead blames "permissiveness"
Vulture capitalists circle above Puerto Rico
Bill Moyers
Bill talks with anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla about the challenges Puerto Ricans face in the wake of the storm
Oxfam savages Trump on his “continued failure” to help Puerto Rico
Rachel Leah
Oxfam doesn't normally get involved with "wealthy countries," but Trump's slow response has forced its hand
Americans rate their worst fears in new national survey
Steven Rosenfeld
Fatal diseases, yes. Life-changing violence, yes. But plane crashes over gun violence?
Want to fail at online dating? Be a grammar snob
Marty Kaplan
Universal competence in the use of apostrophes would be nice, but it won't heal the world's problems
How many big storms before people abandon coastal cities?
Reynard Loki
For homeowners in flood zones, one big question looms: Rebuild or retreat after another "500-year storm?"
Facts don’t matter to Americans, and we should be worried
R. Kelly Garrett
There’s a lot of variation in how Americans decide what to believe
Welcome to the Romance Resistance
Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Trump Effect on book sales isn't reaching all genres. Women are buying even more romance novels now
The privilege of being triggered: YA author Tiffany Jackson tackles real-life in page-turning novels
Emily Jordan
Dead babies and the foster care system are some of the topics in Jackson's page-turning stories
Public School, Inc.: When public education turns into big business
Yoohyun Jun
As the need for high test scores grew, a teacher saw himself becoming a cog in the machine of big business
Rush Limbaugh: NFL protests are a conspiracy to destroy “masculinity”
Charlie May
Limbaugh says that the left "wants to cause great damage to the NFL" in order to rob our nation of its ruggedness
In Trump’s America, is the Supreme Court still seen as legitimate?
Michael Nelson, Eric Plutzer, Michael Berkman
Leaders take it as their duty to accept the Supreme Court's decisions, but will our political climate change that?
There’s a surprising connection between NFL protests and Citizens United
Elizabeth C. Tippett
Some fear Citizens United is destroying democracy — but it may not be all that it seems
Scott Pruitt wanted $25,000 for a soundproof phone booth
Matthew Rozsa
Pruitt's quest to end the leaks goes to ridiculous lengths
Hurricane Maria has crushed Puerto Rican farmers
Nathaniel Johnson
The direct hit on the Caribbean by recent hurricanes has farmers struggling
CEOs scolded Trump after Charlottesville — but still won’t cut him off
Carrie Levine
Many won’t commit to cutting off funding for Trump-related committees
Irma and Harvey teach us that a military is quite important
Michael T. Klare
Militarizing homeland security in the climate-change era
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