John Kerry, Edward Snowden, and America’s Moral Injuries
By Larry Shook
Maybe it’s just my own PTSD talking, but I don’t think Secretary of State John Kerry is the first U.S. cabinet official in my lifetime to be guilty of cruel irony. Continue reading A Prayer for the Secretary→
What my mens group taught me about politics, science, and climate change.
By Tim Connor
As Marco Rubio, the ambitious U.S. Senator from Florida recently demonstrated, people will say almost anything to get elected. In Rubio’s case, it matters not that we are only decades away from seeing large tracts of his home state recovered by the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading Tipping Points→
Dan Treecraft may have been the most difficult friend a person could have. He was also irreplaceable, and widely beloved.
By Jamie Borgan (September 4, 2011)
One of my earliest memories of Dan Treecraft comes from a wedding, where he told me I might get strawberry diabetes if I didn’t stop eating strawberries off of the buffet table. Continue reading A Splendid Enigma→
In a recent visit to Spokane, author Barry Lopez gazed into an apocalypse, and left his audience speechless.
By Beatrice Lackaff
A man at a podium, in the temperate zone of a blue planet, pivoting around Polaris, asks us to make a cultural inquiry: Who are we? Where are we headed? What have we forgotten? What circumstances will our children be born into?