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Environmental conditions

As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation

by Imani Perry,

History haunts, but Alabama changes

Cursed Fields

by Noah Sneider,

What the tundra has in store for Russia’s reindeer herders

Empty Suits

by Ian MacDougall,

Defamation law and the price of dissent

States of Decay

by Ben Mauk,

A journey through America’s nuclear heartland

Ojai Valley, California

by Chad Ress,

Beginning in 2011, a historic drought struck California. It was officially declared over this April, largely because of rainfall in the northern half of the state. Parts of the south,…

Stormy Waters

by Elizabeth Rush, Rebecca Elliott,

Bushwhackers

by Michael Healy-Rae,

From a meeting of Irish Parliament that took place in February. Michael Healy-Rae is a representative for Kerry South. Michael Ring is the minister of state for regional economic development.

The New Climate

by Bruno Latour,

By Bruno Latour, from The Great Regression, a collection of essays edited by Heinrich Geiselberger that will be published next month by Polity. Latour is a philosopher and the author, most…

Over the River

by Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint

Ground Control

From affidavits written by people across the United States that were included in a lawsuit brought against the Department of Homeland Security by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. The lawsuit,…

Standing Rock Speaks

by Walter Kirn,

Only as a story will this make sense. One morning in August, craving company, I walked around the corner from my apartment in Livingston, Montana, and sat down at the…