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In a few days, the May issue of the magazine will arrive for subscribers ( ! ) and appear on…
Late last week, I mentioned a historically large conservation gift, worth $165 million and coming from one of America’s successful…
As I mentioned yesterday in another note on Erie, Pennsylvania, I’ll try to send out some reports on still-functional…
At its peak, nearly one century ago in 1920, the coal-mining industry employed nearly 800,000 people in the United States.…
No, despite the title, this is not a U.S.-politics item. Three years ago I did an Atlantic piece called…
Daily Trump #6: May 27, 2016. Drought? What drought? The rains of the past El Nino season…
I’ve mentioned several times how interested I’ve been in the American Prairie Reserve, in northern Montana. (And,…
Thanks to my Atlantic colleague Kathy Gilsinan for the reminder of why today is different from all other days: It’s…
We’ve had a lot of development on the scientific, public-health, technology, and local-government front since the previous reports in this…
Just because it's interesting and beautiful, take a look at this visualization of shipping traffic around the world. It’s a…
The ongoing theme in this thread involves “hastening the inevitable.” That is, speeding the transition from the very noisy, extremely…
In our American Futures section, I’ve just described President Obama’s creation today of three new National Monuments. You can read…
Often it seems that modern presidents can’t do anything — except wage war. Here’s a heartening exception.
Clare Foran reported on our site yesterday about the rapidly intensifying Ted Cruz-Donald Trump grudge match in Iowa. (Bonus essay…
I’ll begin my emergence from a long bout of print-magazine writing by mentioning an article by Lawrence Richards, in…
Many of the president’s supporters fear that he hasn’t really known what he is doing. Many of his critics worry that he is all-too-skillful at attaining his ends. There’s increasing evidence that the critics may be right.
In this space I’ve been reporting developments in local D.C. citizen-action efforts to phase out the super-polluting, uniquely noisy leaf…
As the climate talks open in Paris, here is an instructive set of “story maps” from our friends and…
On the eve of the Paris climate talks, let’s get back to “sustainable capitalism.” After my piece about Al…
On Wednesday night, as reported here, our local Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Washington voted 8-1 to support a shift…