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Liza FeatherstoneThe Nation |
I massaged the soil around the roots a bit, to allow them to breathe before I lowered them into the ground. I made sure the soil is even, tucking my...
Back in 1982, a young Detroit man named Vincent Chin went out to a bar with his friends to celebrate his wedding, which was to take place the next...
A nurse boarded the Bx18A bus, whose route circles between the Morris Heights and Highbridge neighborhoods of the Bronx. Having an anxious moment most...
In both of my chosen professions—teaching and journalism—most discussion of artificial intelligence errs on the side of navel-gazing. It’s all...
Pesticides, Rachel Carson wrote in 1962, have “the power to kill every insect, the ‘good’ and the ‘bad,’ to still the song of birds and...
Victories in the climate fight are often hard to rigorously analyze. This one is tricky for all the usual reasons. President Biden’s pause on...
We used to see “plastic” as the epitome of what humans, and all living things, were not. The phrase “plastic people”—memorialized in a...
“Greta Thunberg deals a cruel blow to the Jews,” read a recent Boston Herald headline. The writer cited a long list of deadly and horrific...
“Public!” yelled Tefa Galvis, a tall, smiling organizer with New York City Democratic Socialists of America-Ecosocialists. “Power!” answered...
The apocalyptic news cycle of the past month yielded few bright spots. While war and genocide have rightly dominated the headlines, the climate news...
Wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Eat the Rich,” United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain recently announced that General Motors had agreed to...
It started with the dead birds. Last week, more than a thousand migratory birds were killed in one night by flying into one building in Chicago....
Last week, rain hammered New York City, filling the subways and the streets—and I was in the basement level of my apartment, frantically attempting...
Every year around this time in New York City, I become intrigued at the uptick in protests, screenings, art installations, and panel discussions about...
Joe Biden’s signature climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, is doing what it’s supposed to do—boosting and decarbonizing the economy. Its...