Lauren McCauley: NASA Drops Major Bomb in ‘March Toward Ever-Warmer Planet’
NASA this weekend released new data which shows that February 2016 was not only the hottest in recorded history, but it soared past all previous records, prompting scientists to describe … Continue reading
Eva-Maria Simms: Find a statistical portrait of your neighborhood
Find a statistical portrait of your neighborhood. Click here for a link to interactive searchable maps with many factors: income; occupations; demographics; race; gender; ancestry; gay or lesbian households; crime rates; … Continue reading
Andrew Bacevich: Don’t Cry for Me, America
What Trumpism Means for Democracy Whether or not Donald Trump ultimately succeeds in winning the White House, historians are likely to rank him as the most consequential presidential candidate of … Continue reading
Lilace Mellin Guignard: Lullaby in Fracktown
Child, when you’re sad put on your blue shoes. You know that Mama loves you lollipops and Daddy still has a job to lose. So put on a party hat. … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Why I support Bernie Sanders for President
America is in crisis. We have 662 overseas bases in 150 foreign countries, we are engaged in military attacks on another 135 countries, and yet we feel less safe than ever before. … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: The Orchid Flower
Just as I wonder whether it’s going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can’t explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Flint’s Crisis Is About More Than Water
What is in the mind of someone who knowingly poisons children and impairs their lives? Why did the politicians, regulators and bureaucrats who knew the water in Flint, Mich., was … Continue reading
Norman Solomon: The Democratic Party’s Biggest Insurrection in Decades
Forty-eight years ago, a serious insurrection jeopardized the power structure of the national Democratic Party for the first time in memory. Propelled by the movement against the Vietnam War, that … Continue reading
Michael Simms: The Legend of the Piasa
The recent flooding in St. Louis reminds us that we are powerless over the violence of nature. We believed that our grandfathers had tamed the Mississippi, transforming the roiling waters … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: A Benediction
Who would have guessed, feeling the ancient river as I board the ferry, that the Mississippi flows slower than my veins? Who would have thought a pulse could flow downstream? … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: The First Snowfall
The first snow of winter here in central Vermont has now fallen. It came late this year, late by several months, according to the TV weather watchers. I’m glad it … Continue reading
Video: The Solar System to Scale
In this engaging short film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, a group of friends build the very first accurate-to-scale model of the solar system complete with each planet’s orbits … Continue reading
What is the Difference between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders?
After a New York Times analysis found Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton voted in synch 93 percent of the time during their two overlapping Senate years, Sanders’ supporters have been … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Rewilding, hillwalking, and the extraordinary history of the British islands.
George Monbiot, interviewed by Dan Bailey for UKHillwalking.com, 11th December 2015 What would a natural upland habitat have looked like in Britain before humans started having the dominant influence? This … Continue reading
