The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

Using a variety of ploys to manufacture doubt, a whole industry of science-for-hire experts helps corporations put profits over public health and safety.

Marcuse Today Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man looks more prescient than its author could have imagined.

The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

How Not to Tell the History of Science Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

Whose Anthropocene? Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

The Case for Abolishing Elections They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

How to Be a Race Traitor A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.

“Effective altruism,” the philanthropic movement founded on Peter Singer’s ideas, applies a consequentialist philosophy to the problem of global poverty.