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After the deluge, what next?
Joan Walsh
New Orleans will be rebuilt. But how? Should its slums be replaced by mixed-income housing? And if the city can't attract investors, should we just let it wither? Six experts cross swords in a Salon roundtable.
Bigger, faster, higher
Jonathan Watts
Along its almost completed railway to Tibet, China's can-do spirit pushes people and the environment to the limit.
The know-nothings
Andrew O'Hehir
Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the findings of science.
Is Katrina the wave of the future?
T.g.
Bill McKibben says the hurricane marks Year One on the world's new calendar.
“No one can say they didn’t see it coming”
Sidney Blumenthal
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
McCain and Clinton’s Northern exposure
Aaron Kinney
The senators journey to witness the effects of climate change in Alaska and Canada.
Big Pharma’s free ride
Adam Graham-Silverman
Pharmaceutical companies are using free-trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition -- and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs.
Selling out the environment
Amanda Griscom Little
Senate Democrats say they want to save the planet. So why did more than half of them vote for the Bush administration's pork-riddled, Earth-hating new energy bill?
Kyoto lite
Amanda Griscom Little
To make up for passing on the Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration devised an alternative -- a poorly defined international partnership with no limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, no funding and no clear goals.
Extreme makeover at the EPA
Amanda Griscom Little
With another round of industry-friendly appointments to the agency, the Bush administration continues to weaken the nation's environmental protections.
Showdown in Marfa
Andrew Nelson, Stephanie Corley
It's high noon in far West Texas, where a shootout looms for the soul of one of America's last unspoiled towns. But these aren't typical gunslingers. Some of them wear Prada.
Bush’s answer to Kyoto
Aaron Kinney
A climate change pact the U.S. has joined typifies the Bush administration's "no gain, no pain"
philosophy.
One nation, divisible
Michelle Goldberg
Do evangelicals and secularists want the same America? Legal scholar Noah Feldman says yes, and he has a plan for a more perfect union. Too bad it will never work.
“Sterling” judge or “extreme rightist”?
Aaron Kinney, Compiled by Page Rockwell
Activists and scholars size up Bush's Supreme Court nominee.
Where’s the environmental protection?
Amanda Griscom Little
The EPA declines to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from cars -- and the D.C. Appeals Court says it doesn't have to.
Will the green revolution be localized?
Amanda Griscom Little
Robert Redford and his co-hosts invited mayors from across the U.S. to the actor's spectacular Sundance resort, hoping to inspire them to take action on climate change.
Bush out of touch on climate change
Aaron Kinney
The G-8's climate change compromise shows that President Bush is out of step with the American public.
Is there common ground “beyond Kyoto”?
Aaron Kinney
The G-8's climate change agreement didn't lead to concrete action, but it may have advanced the cause.
Collateral damage: The Earth
David Paul Kuhn
Observers say the bombings won't derail the G8's talks about African aid, but global warming will be a loser.
“Clean up this mess”
Salon Staff
Sen. John Kerry says that President Bush will never be effective in Iraq until he first breaks down his wall of arrogance.
A bitter defeat for the press
Farhad Manjoo
The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the Cooper-Miller case will do more than hurt two reporters -- it will erode the press's ability to cover sensitive stories.
While world burns, Democrats say no to nukes
Katharine Mieszkowski
Why did some Senate Democrats vote against caps on greehouse gases? Two words: nuclear subsidies.
Keeping America safer — with science
Page Rockwell
As more evidence surfaces that the Bush administration can't be bothered with scientific accuracy, the ACLU tries framing science as a national security issue.
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