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The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Try

The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Try The Most Important Thing We Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Try

The future will follow an unpredictable route, but we must still follow a compass called hope.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit

Loving the Puget Sound to Death

Loving the Puget Sound to Death Loving the Puget Sound to Death

Four decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, regulators haven’t kept up with the pollution pressure that growing populations put on America’s shorelines.

Feb 4, 2015 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander

What the Sharing Economy Takes

What the Sharing Economy Takes What the Sharing Economy Takes

Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.

Jan 27, 2015 / Feature / Doug Henwood

Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand

Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand Uber and the Taxi Industry’s Last Stand

What the rise of the app-based cab service says about the future of work in America

Jan 27, 2015 / Feature / Jon Liss

We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.

We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas. We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.

In a country that has always used race to justify inequality, ending police brutality is just the start.

Jan 7, 2015 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith

The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia

The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia

Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.

Dec 10, 2014 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his weapon in the direction of a group of protesters in Ferguson, MO.

After #Ferguson After #Ferguson

The protests that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown created a network of youth in revolt.

Oct 8, 2014 / Steven Hsieh and Raven Rakia

How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism

How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism

A host of new groups are reviving the grassroots fight for racial equality.

Aug 27, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

The New Abolitionism

The New Abolitionism The New Abolitionism

Averting planetary disaster will mean forcing fossil fuel companies to give up at least $10 trillion in wealth.

Apr 22, 2014 / Feature / Chris Hayes

Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars

Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars

Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?

Jan 29, 2014 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg

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