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The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

The Parenting Panic Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

More important, even the most generous attempts to protect the political and socioeconomic rights of individuals leave some duties of individuals to their own states and all humanity out of account, ...

What’s Next for Music Criticism? Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.

The War on Hospitals Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

October 02, 2023 There have been no higher-stakes public investments recently than those the federal government made in biomedical research and production to make COVID-19 vaccines. Many commentators, ...

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

September 07, 2023 Dear Members of the Board of Governors, West Virginians, and all Americans: We write at a potentially cataclysmic moment for West Virginia University (WVU), where we are professors.

Though historians—of all people—should know better, we sometimes still talk, and write, as if there is a single national audience for popular history.