The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

Contrary to the boosterism of billionaires, the need for space colonization must be argued for, not assumed. And the arguments aren’t good.

The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.

A Climate Strategy of Last Resort With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

How Not to Tell the History of Science Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

This essay is featured in print in Imagining Global Futures. The Arab uprisings of the last decade—and similar protest movements in Iran and Turkey—have given way to counterrevolution, authoritarian ...

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

Whose Anthropocene? Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

The Case for Abolishing Elections They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.