Monkey See, Monkey Do: How Corruption, Inequality, and Self-Interest Threaten Civilization
Alan Greenspan spent decades as the most powerful economist on earth, genuflecting at the altar of Ayn Rand and insisting that banks would regulate themselves because...

'We have got to end the international disgrace of being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right not a privilege.'
Imagine, for a second, that the slice of delectable cake melting in your mouth was made with flour ground from insects not grains. Or that your most alluring perfume – a special gift, perhaps – contained reclaimed ingredients...
In these pestilent, perilous times, when the very idea of distinction between truth and falsehood is under siege, it’s more critical than ever to keep a sharp lookout for destructive false analogies.
The remarkable feature of this judicial sentence was how it clashed conceptually with the customary default question that suffuses our judicial system as a whole
An ever-changing climate can put certain regions in the crosshairs of coastal flooding, heavy rain, erosion, and other risks.
Since the president sees himself foremost as a negotiator, perhaps it’s time for a negotiated revolution. Not to break us apart, but to bring us together.
Preserving the middle-class in America is necessary for the United States to continue as a democracy, warns Ganesh Sitaraman.
On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that have taken effect over the past eight years.
If citizens have heard anything about the upheaval in the U.S. coal industry, it is probably the insistence that President Obama and the EPA have waged a “war on coal.”
All along the Pacific Coast, environmentalists are gearing up for an epic fight.
Operating a small business, the backbone of the U.S. economy, has always been tough. But small businesses have also been disproportionately hurt
African nations have overwhelmingly included climate resilient agriculture in their indicative pledges to the United Nations. And agriculture is seen as a major focus through a common position of the African Union on climate adaptation.
When we think of coasts, we are likely to think about the great sandy beaches that have been the destination for many day trips and long weekends.
The American tax system, in which those with the least pay the most.
Political polarization is largest for demographic groups in which individuals are least likely to use the internet and social media, new research shows.
More than 50 million years ago, when Earth experienced a series of extreme global warming events, early mammals responded by shrinking in size.
Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, a new study warns.
New York Attorney General's office discovers secondary email while investigating company's climate science cover-up
Rigidity in our beliefs and behaviors is the greatest threat to our own survival and the survival of all that we've come to love in civilization. Ultimately, the question we have to ask is if our systems of politics and economy are flexible enough to become sustainable...