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When we rely deeply on other lives, there is urgency to protect them.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
“All along our street here we have case after case of cancer,” he told the liberal investigative filmmaker Robert Greenwald. “We have a problem in this community, for this many people to be sick or dead. Why is the cancer rate so high? Does the paper mill have anything to do with it?” Two years earlier, USA Today had published a devastating investi
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
His glance kept straying to the lifeguards. So did Amanda’s. How could they not? There was a metaphor less tiresome—what would stand between you and death at the hands of nature but beautiful youth, flat stomachs, nipples the size of quarters, swollen biceps, hairless legs, browned skin,
Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
As she pushed off, she knew no one would ever see this sandbar again. The elements had created a brief and shifting smile of sand, angled just so. The next tide, the next current would design another sandbar, and another, but never this one. Not the one who caught her. The one who told her a thing or two.
Delia Owens • Where the Crawdads Sing
will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth
... See moreAbrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
