Science and Health

Mike Davis.

Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022

A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.

Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener

Indiana University professor Ross Gay

Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy” Ross Gay on the Labor of “Inciting Joy”

A conversation with the poet Ross Gay about Inciting Joy, an exploration of joy as a critical emotion that “gets us to love, as a practice of survival."

Oct 25, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity.

I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity. I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity.

Life coaching offered the energy and promise I was looking for—until I learned what it wanted from me in return. 

Oct 24, 2022 / Feature / Geoffrey Mak

Liz Truss

Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives

Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.

Oct 21, 2022 / Gary Younge

Outside a supermarket, a masked essential worker wearing a blue hazmat suit holds a stop sign.

The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination

A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.

Oct 20, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Hypersonic missile russia

What Do We Do in a Rapidly Heating World? What Do We Do in a Rapidly Heating World?

The climate and geopolitics are only getting hotter—both urgent existential threats.

Oct 19, 2022 / Alfred McCoy

Inglewood Oil Field

The Deadly Consequences of Urban Oil Drilling The Deadly Consequences of Urban Oil Drilling

Since she was 9 years old, Nalleli Cobo has been fighting to end environmental racism in Los Angeles, where 3.2 million people live near an oil or gas well. 

Oct 19, 2022 / StudentNation / Mara Marques Cavallaro

The Uncategorizable Bruno Latour (1947–2022)

The Uncategorizable Bruno Latour (1947–2022) The Uncategorizable Bruno Latour (1947–2022)

The scholar, who passed last week, revolutionized the field of science and technology studies and challenged the very notion of disciplinary boundaries.

Oct 18, 2022 / Obituary / Paul N. Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht

Tesla's Elon Musk

Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us

A national fleet of battery-powered cars is unlikely to prove sustainable and could have catastrophic consequences globally.

Oct 18, 2022 / Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox

How the United States Fails the Chronically Ill

How the United States Fails the Chronically Ill How the United States Fails the Chronically Ill

In her new book, the poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke charts her and many Americans’ struggle with chronic illness.

Oct 17, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Libby Watson

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