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Feature
Tropical Forests Are Flipping From Storing Carbon to Releasing It
Illegal logging and land seizures are driving this ominous yet overlooked scientific trend.
Sam Eaton
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The Climate-Wrecking Industry… and How to Beat It
Insisting that we’re all responsible for global warming lets the biggest corporate polluters off the hook.
Jason Mark
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Jerry Brown vs. the Climate Wreckers: Is He Doing Enough?
The California governor has led the nation in reducing emissions, but activists say he won’t take the next step: leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
Mark Hertsgaard
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The Green Jobs Revolution Needs to Include All of Us
A few years ago, Adan Anguiano was in prison. Now he has a career installing solar panels in East Los Angeles.
Audrea Lim
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Editorial
I Want to Explore Polyamory, My Partner Doesn’t. What Should I Do?
Another reader asks how she can protect others from an ex-colleague who may have assaulted three women.
Liza Featherstone
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Jerry Brown’s Climate Legacy Is Still Being Decided
The California governor has been a stellar first-generation climate leader, but now science requires leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
Bill McKibben
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Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter
Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”
Farah Jasmine Griffin
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Column
The Widest Political Divide in America Isn’t Between Left and Right
We’re split along racial and gender lines—handing Congress to Democrats in November won’t change that.
Kai Wright
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Books & the Arts
The Women of Impressionism
Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Nourse, Berthe Morisot, and Rosa Bonheur were as central to Impressionism’s shifting and often contradictory currents as their male counterparts.
Barry Schwabsky
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The Afterlives of Charles de Gaulle
A new biography claims his vision was a stabilizing synthesis of France’s monarchical and republican political traditions. But was it?
David A. Bell
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The Gospel According to serpentwithfeet
The former choirboy blurs the earthly and the heavenly on his debut album, soil.
Briana Younger
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