“If the pandemic so terrified us that billions of us retreated into panicked cocoons for months, what can explain or justify our blindness and indifference towards the ten million lives ended each year by the repeated inhalation of smog?”

Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

A bulletin from our climate future.

An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.

“There was no they.' There was not even a 'he,' no armed person turning on a crowd. But what happened at JFK last night was, in every respect but the violence, a mass shooting.”

“There was this brief moment when people who wrote blogs also cared about so-called literary fiction. Now it seems they’ve moved on. My doctor doesn’t give a fuck.”