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Global Justice

Remembering the Golden Spike Ceremony

The completion of the first transcontinental railroad 150 years ago is remembered as an iconic moment in the history of U.S. westward expansion. But there are other ways to understand the railroad’s significance, and its sharp resonance for our times.

Manu Karuka

Reading Lists

Haiti, Disaster, and Revolution

Suffering in Haiti is a manmade, not a natural, disaster.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Science & Nature

Climate Gut Check

Beneath the jargon, a new UN report serves up a revolutionary response to climate change.

Troy Vettese

Politics, Science & Nature

No Collision

In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans. What happens when they opt out of democratic preparation for emergencies?

Bonnie Honig

Science & Nature

Defensible Space

“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.

Jessie Kindig

Class & Inequality

The Last Man to Know Everything

The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.

Troy Vettese

Science & Nature

Nature Defends Itself

A new book on climate change deploys an old theme, pitting man against nature. This is not only wrong; it stands in the way of a just future.

Dayton Martindale

Politics

Testing the Waters in Texas

Whoever figures out how to save Texas might just save the rest of us in the process.

Elizabeth Catte

Poetry

Introducing “What Nature”

The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.

Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, Stefania Heim

Science & Nature

Gamifying the Ocean

Silicon Valley has turned the problem of marine plastic waste into yet another avenue for “disruption.” But why should clean oceans have to make good business sense?

Matthew King

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

For American Corporations, Winning Is Not Enough

Standing Rock shows us that businesses don't simply silence protestors, they also discredit and bankrupt them.

Lauren Carasik

Science & Nature

Who Owns the Wind?

There is more than enough wind energy to power our future. But our model of paying for it is stuck in the past.

David McDermott Hughes

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