Indigenous groups have a long history of intentionally setting fires to keep ecosystems healthy. Policymakers are now more interested in the practice. Continue reading Alarmed by Scope of Wildfires, Officials Turn to Native Americans for Help

Old and ailing, they see exercising their fundamental right to vote as a way to have a say in a future they will probably never see. Continue reading These Americans Are Determined to Cast a Last Ballot Before Dying

New research shows that the quantity of fragments embedded in the sea floor far exceeds the plastic floating on the ocean’s surface. Continue reading Hidden Beneath the Ocean’s Surface, Nearly 16 Million Tons of Microplastic

The guitarist, who died this week at 65, gleefully reinvented the rules of being a guitar hero — then bent them again and again. Continue reading Eddie Van Halen, the Shredder Supreme

This isn’t the first time missionaries have risked spreading disease alongside the word of god. Continue reading An Evangelical Conquista in Amazonia

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is facing re-election, called the country’s reopening a validation of its “go hard, go early” response. Continue reading New Zealand Stamps Out the Virus. For a Second Time.

The vice president is likely to be focused and aggressively defend President Trump, as he did in the debate against Senator Tim Kaine. Continue reading How Will Pence Fare vs. Harris? 5 Moments From 2016 Offer Clues

Self-aware, self-conscious or self-deluding, it’s a form as old as theater itself. And it’s flourishing in a time of social isolation. Continue reading It Takes One: How the Monologue Speaks Loudest in Lockdown

Before “people of color” and BIPOC, Britain had its own inclusive concept for nonwhite people. Continue reading What We Can Learn From the Rise and Fall of ‘Political Blackness’