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The environmental nightmare you know nothing about.

Response to Tom Hayden’s “Participatory Democracy,” with Hayden’s reply, and to Linda Darling-Hammond’s “Redlining Our Schools.” Plus a couple historical corrections.

The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

Activists are risking their lives in the fight against US and Canadian mining companies.

If we value the planet, we are going to have to get cruel and blunt about defending its beautiful geography from the fossil fuel industry. 

Is the nation's best public park system poised to become an enormous gas field?

When nuclear reactors blow, the first thing that melts down is the truth.