Culture and Society
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Artifice v. Pastoral
by Jay Griffiths
Championing an old idea over a surrealistically modern threat.
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Spy Flies
by Kathleen Yale
Didn't you just know they were up to something?
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Sounds Like a Lot to Me
by Sandra Steingraber
The author shares her personal finances—and you should, too.
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Elegy for a Toxic Logic
by Rebecca Solnit
The economic crisis may be the best opportunity we've had in a long while.
Am I Still Here?
by Anthony Doerr
Someone might be sending you an e-mail right now. Shouldn't you check?
Under the Fence
Photographs and text by Jason Benjamin Smith
A small river connects a divided landscape.
The Crying Indian
by Ginger Strand
The scandalous story of the aluminum can, brought to you by ad executives masquerading as environmentalists.
Notes from a Very Small Island
by Erik Reece
One man, one tin cup, one canoe, and an exegesis on the difference between merely existing and truly being in this world.
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
by Rebecca Solnit
The word radical comes from the Latin word for root; can deciding to stay home be radical?
Bone of Conciliation
by Henry Chappell
Ceremony is called upon to acknowledge the brutal treatment of Comanche Indians by Anglo-Texans, and to allow the healing to commence.
Healing Rwanda
by Terry Tempest Williams
On land steeped in blood and stories, Rwandans work to forgive, but not to forget.
Jurassic Park of the Free Market
by Rebecca Solnit
Like a rebellious teenager, the corporation has turned on its creators to wreak havoc and foment unrest.
Building an Anti-Economy
by Chris Carlsson
Visionaries and innovators are shaping a new economic system within the shell of the old.
With the Lapps in the High Mountains
Translated by Barbara Sjoholm
This early text about the nomad reindeer herders tells of the year that Emilie Demant Hatt, a Danish painter, spent among the Sámi of northern Sweden in 1907-1908.
Looking Away from Beauty
by Rebecca Solnit
The celebrated bodies of Olympic athletes are connected to other bodies that governments would prefer to keep hidden
Exodus
by Charles Bowden & Julián Cardona. Photographs by Julián Cardona
The tide of humans coursing northward across the Mexican-American border is a force of nature like no other
Revolutions per Minute
by Rebecca Solnit
Radical transformation is all around us, if only we'd train our eyes to look.
Down with Descartes
by Charles Eisenstein
The distinction between humans and nature has made us both sick, but every crisis has its opportunity
Sunrise on the Medicine Wheel
by Elizabeth Dodd
At an ancient site, the seasons are turning -- but something both richer and more frightening is turning, too
The Gospel of Consumption
by Jeffrey Kaplan
The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket
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