Our Moment
Departments
-
Noted
Responses to print articles and web content, and a letter from Executive Editor Mark Schmitt.
-
Up Front
Lost opportunities from a McCain administration, conservatives' nightmare Obama administration, journalists ponder the first thing Obama does to disappoint us, and T.A. Frank's parody awards some Bush administration superlatives.
Features
-
The Audacity of Patience
Obama's savvy coalition-building broke all the rules about how to run for president. If he can take the same approach in the White House, he will be a towering success.
-
The Paper Chase
Dozens of progressive institutions are clamoring to put their agendas on Obama's desk. Will the incoming president actually read them?
-
Street Fighter
New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, is proving that cities don't need major initiatives like congestion pricing to become more walkable and bikeable.
-
Are Cows Worse <br/>Than Cars?
Everyone knows driving an SUV or leaving the lights on is bad for the earth. But when it comes to your environmental impact, what's on your plate is just as important.
-
Getting Real on Climate Change
We'll never succeed in making dirty energy too expensive. Let's make clean energy cheap.
Columns
-
The Realignment Opportunity
Conservatives say that America remains a center-right country and Obama won only because of special circumstances, while some liberals claim that the election marks a historic realignment. Neither is the right way to read the returns.
-
Mind the Map
Obama's success proves that there's no turning back from the reality that states, their governors, legislators, and parties will play a central role in our country's political future.
-
Don't Call it a Culture War
We will continue to lose battles like Prop. 8 until we can successfully relabel LGBT rights a civil-rights issue, rather than an issue mired in the culture-war swamp of moral controversy.
-
Blaming History
Milan Kundera's The Joke and the need for comic relief in political discourse.
Culture
-
Damaged Heroes
Four recent films reveal how America sees its Iraq War veterans.
-
A Fine Mess
If we want to avoid another financial crisis, we must first understand why some economic thinkers saw it coming, and why others missed it.
-
College For the Few
Social scientist Charles Murray aims to provoke. This time, it's with four broad-brush, simplistic claims about higher education.
-
After the Market Mania
The era of big government is over. But now, so is the era of markets. Can we find the right balance?
Special Report
-
Toward a Sea Ethic
Expanding our idea of community is a first step to restoring the seas around us.
-
Restoring the Battered Commons
The degradation of coasts and oceans continues, but faint hopes for improvement are stirring.
-
Carbon Dioxide: The Curse of the Deep
Ocean warming, acidification, and corrosion wreak havoc on marine populations.
-
Imagining the Oceans in 2025
Entire ecosystems teeter on the brink of extinction as slime and dead zones take over.
-
Saccage
Learning the lessons of Jacques Cousteau.
-
Florida's Sea Turtles Besieged
Time is running out to make the sort of policy changes needed to ensure the long-term protection and sustainability of Florida's beaches -- for the well-being of sea turtles and people.
-
The Arctic Ocean in the 21st Century
With warming at a rate double the global average, the region's animal populations struggle to adapt.
-
Saving the Fish Banks
The U.S. has made improvements in managing its stocks but only compared to the rest of the world.
-
View From the Boat
An Alaska family with a long history in the fishing industry opposes farmed fish.
-
Marine Biodiversity in Jeopardy
The attrition of the world's coral reefs signals far broader and graver problems.
-
Ocean Fish Farms and Public-Resource Privatization
Industrial aquaculture poses new threats to U.S. waters and fishermen.
-
A Call for Ocean-Policy Reform
The time is now for government to respond to long-standing demands for action.
-
Thinking Big, Valuing the Priceless
Big-picture, government-led efforts, involving markets and civil society, could prove to be the last salvation for our precious downstream and offshore ecosystems.
