How Women Are Going From Climate Victims to Climate Leaders
Women are disproportionately affected by climate change across the globe. At COP22, they demanded the opportunity to be…
The Six Core Emotional Arcs That Underlie Our Favorite Fiction
A big-data analysis suggests even complex tales rest on a few fundamental emotional storylines. By Tom Jacobs Actor…
Fixing the Gender Imbalance in the Back Rooms of the U.N. Climate Talks
Women bear the harshest effects of climate change and also hold the keys to solving it. Yet at…
How Has the Economy Fared Under Obama?
A quick primer on the last eight years. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) On Friday, the…
The World Unites Behind the Green Economy—Most of It Anyway
As President-elect Donald Trump seeks a quick exit from the Paris Climate Accord, the international community at the…
The Sheriff Gets His Man
A mustachioed Ohio lawman who rails against undocumented immigrants is suddenly less of a fringe figure. He embodies…
How Industrialization Brought About the Decline of Vertebrate Species
New research hints that contemporary habitat losses may have initiated population declines of around 95 percent in some…
Since We Last Spoke: Dangerous Waters
New twists on past stories. By Francie Diep (Photo: Chuck Espinoza; Model: Elaine Rensing; Stylist: Mark Starr; Make-Up:…
The Implicit Racism in Magazines
There’s an underlying bias against people of color in national magazines aimed at a female readership. By Tom…
The Supreme Court Gamble That Paid Off Bigly
Republicans have successfully kept President Obama from appointing a ninth member of the Supreme Court, but that’s a…