What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars?
The Global Soap Project aims to tidy those slivers’ trip to the landfill by sending reclaimed soap to poor countries.
That’s Disgusting: Researcher Studies Gag Reflex
In a revolting development, research psychologist Rachel Herz has cornered the market on discussing what disgusts us.
Conservation’s Earnest Message Could Use Levity
Lions, gorillas, and wolves, oh my! Two on-the-ground proponents of saving the tropics think a great way to both engage and enlighten the West is to deploy a dollop of satire.
Simon Johnson Critiques Democracy vs. Financialization
The former chief economist for the IMF discusses the unfairness of the existing American financial infrastructure and the complex policy prescriptions that seek a remedy.
Obamacare: No Friends in Free-Market, Single-Payer Camps
It's the president of the free-market-minded Galen Institute versus a pediatrician/activist for a single-payer system in spirited debate on improving American health care.
Solutions to Water Supply Issues Surface in the West
In the quarter-century since Marc Reisner issued a grim prognosis for water in the American West, various entities have made efforts to reverse what once seemed inevitable.
Water Shortages Threaten the American West Lifestyle
While not every dire prediction has come true, amid swimming pools and thirsty crops, the hard truth remains that the American West cannot maintain its spendthrift ways of using fresh water.
Greening the Desert? Not So Fast!
On The 25th anniversary of the book "Cadillac Desert," we look at the work of an earlier Cassandra of Western water shortages, explorer John Wesley Powell.
As Environment Degrades, Our Well-Being Grows?
The environment is faltering even as measurements show human well-being is improving. How long can that last?
Europe’s Muslims Get to be the Continent’s New Jews
Issues swirling around Europe’s non-assimilation of its Muslim population recall its anti-Semitic past, according to scholar Reza Aslan.