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IssueVol. 081 Issue 005 (June 1 2017)
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Paid articleLife on Earth
Conniff, Ruth
EDITORS NOTE by RUTH CONNIFF Life on Earth Almost every story in this issue of the magazine is about human beings’ relationship to the Earth. These relationships are both intensely personal and...
Paid articleClimate Warriors
Conniff, Ruth
COMMENT by RUTH CONNIFF Climate Warriors Global warming, writes Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, is “the biggest thing humans have ever done.” The terrible events triggered by our fossil-fuel...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Religious Scowler Dave Lawson, a Republican state Senator in Delaware, walked out of the chamber to protest an openingprayer from the Koran. He claimed the Muslim holy book, written in...
Paid articleLetters
WE HEAR YOU Prostate Cancer Treatment Not Always Harrowing Stephen Nash’s piece in the March issue, “Bad Diagnosis: FDA Backs Down from Plan to Regulate Tests,” rightly points out the need for...
Paid articleClimate Justice Marchers Bring the Heat
Comer, Jonathan
ON THE LINE by JONATHAN COMER Climate Justice Marchers Bring the Heat Temperatures in Washington, D.C., soared to a record-setting 92 degrees as 200,000 marchers joined the People’s March for...
Paid articleWith Friends Like These ...
LUEDERS, BILL
SMOKING GUN by BILL LUEDERS With Friends Like These . . . Donald Trump, with characteristic great fanfare, on April 3 donated his salary for his first three months in office to the National Park...
Paid articleRage Against the Dying of the Reefs
HELVARG, DAVID
David Helvarg is an author and executive director of Blue Frontier, an ocean conservation and policy group (www.bluefront.org). His latest and most hopeful book is The Golden Shore: Californias Love...
Paid articleCommunities Take the Lead in Battling Frac Sand Mines
Ness, Erik
he road to the Swenson household in Jackson County runs like so many roads in western Wisconsin. It crosses a cornfield, then cozies up to the base of a ridge and follows the contour of the land....
Paid articleAfter the Sky Fell
Armington, Susan
After the Sky Fei Six Years Later, Fukushima Is Still Trying to Move On from the Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdowns i. Japan’s Joban Highway carries my hus-band, Yuichi, and me out of Tokyo, and...
Paid articleThe Battle for the Boundary Waters
Franson, Sally
The Battle for the Boundary Waters By Sally Franson To get to Ely, Minnesota, you take I-35 to Cloquet, pass the Frank Lloyd Wright gas station, hang a right onto Highway 53, follow signs for...
Paid articleWhy the Boundary Waters Matter
Ingram, Mrill
You meet all kinds of folks in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. It’s true, sometimes, that you don’t see many people at all. Entry to the wilderness is managed by a state-of-the-art quota system...
Paid articleVisiting Theodore Roosevelt National Park with my Father
Williams, Terry Tempest
Visiting Theodore Roosevelt National Park with my Father ttu t is a gentle, peaceful place,” my father says as we stand at Scoria Point at sunset. A pink sky is turning violet; the red flaming...
Paid articleThe Unstoppable Green Power Revolution
Wasserman, Harvey
In the dry Nevada desert, just outside of the city of Sparks, the world’s biggest building has begun pumping out lithium-ion batteries. This mammoth Tesla Gigafactory is the brainchild of a South...
Paid articleClimate Change, What Climate Change?
LUEDERS, BILL
Climate Change, What Climate Change? Politicians in Wisconsin and Elsewhere Seek to Suppress Science By Bill Lueders Under Republican Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin has engaged in extraordinary...
Paid articleThe Bad Modern History of Farming
Berry, Wendell
The Bad Modern History of Farming By Wendell Berry To make the economies of the land and of land use something like sustainable, we would have to begin with attention to the difference between the...
Paid articleArizona's Manufactured Terrorism Threat
Hodai, Beau
Arizona’s Manufactured Terrorism Threat By Beau Hodai rior to the summer of 2016, no one had ever been arrested or prosecuted under Arizona’s anti-terrorism laws. Since then, cases have been...
Paid articleThe Scary New Normal for Immigrants
Gupta, Arun
The Scary New Normal for Immigrants By Arun Gupta On the morning of March 25, at his home in Newport, Oregon, Ignacio Garcia-Pablo was placed under arrest. Minutes earlier, his cousin had barged...
Paid article'I've Never Seen Citizen Engagement of This Type'
Conniff, Ruth
‘I’ve Never Seen Citizen Engagement of This Type’ An Interview with the ACLU’s David Cole By Ruth Conniff David Cole became national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union right...
Paid articleShattered Illusions in Lancaster, Ohio
Conniff, Ruth
BOOKS Shattered Illusions in Lancaster, Ohio By Ruth Conniff Glass House: The 1 percent Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town By Brian Alexander St. Martin’s Press. 336 pages....
Paid articleBad Hair Daze
Durst, Will
OFF THE MAP by WILL DURST Bad Hair Daze All you en-terprising entrepreneurs out there might want to invest in a fleet of tractor back-hoes and partial ownership of a cinder block quarry, because...
Paid articleChris Hayes's Book for the Times
Clinton, Kate
| UNPLUGGED by KATE CLINTON Chris Hayes’s Book for the Times In the early years of this Viagracene Epoch, the first 100 Days of the Trump Misrule seemed to have lasted as long as the Hundred...
Paid articleWhen Raiders Become Traitors
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN When Raiders Become Traitors The beloved, historic, icon-ic Oakland Raiders franchise will be moving to Las Vegas, the third National Football League team in the last...
Paid articleFlamingo
Larkin, Joan
POEM by JOAN LARKIN Flamingo Bird of Light, Long Neck, Thing-That-Is-Red— she knows nothing of names nor emperor who ate her tongue with peacocks’ brains and lampreys’ semen. She wades in the...
Paid articleSave the Postal Service
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER Save the Postal Service Journalism, which is sup-posed to help us make sense of our turbulent world, can’t seem to make In addition to “news” (which in-volves...
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