Politics and its Discontents

American news likes to focus only on the human drama that ensues when disaster strikes. In contrast, Global National, clearly less fettered ...

The heroes, of course, are the ones who risk their lives fighting these conflagrations; the villains, the rest of us, for our unwillingness ...

This time, the California wildfires are threatening not only home and people, but the same giant sequoias reported on last week .

Some of them are mute witnesses to over three thousand years of history. Towering and majestic, some as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the g...

Despite the over-generalization of my title, it is clear to me that many of rich really are different from the rest of us, not just in ter...

Humans, and other primates , it appears, have an innate sense of fairness. We expect, for example, in times requiring sacrifice, that no m...

As the effects of climate change become more pronounced, adaptive measures will need to be taken alongside of measures ameliorating the rate...

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