Precisely.

When Your Spouse Is on the Front Lines

The partners of ER doctors and nurses on what this pandemic has been like for their families.

The Pandemic Can’t Lock Down Nature

The wilderness offers not just escape but reassurance.

Why Old-Growth Trees Are Crucial to Fighting Climate Change

Nature is already socking away a lot of carbon for us. It could soak up a lot more—if we help.

The Case Against Wet Markets

They are culturally meaningful—and not at all worth the health risks they pose.

How Pandemics Seep into Literature

From the Paris Review.

Tenting

Trying something new in the vineyard.

John Prine

10 essential songs, with picks from a former bandmate.

What’s More Racist

‘Chinese Virus’ or the CCP’s colonization of Africa?

Relative Values

The private and public lives of Albert Einstein.

The Scholar’s Vocation

The ills of the corporatized, modern university and the path beyond it.

Expel China from U​.​N. Human Rights Council panel

Sign here.

We’re Not All in This Together

When the only way to be a real community is to be apart, it quickly becomes obvious who is out for themselves.

Supporting Canadians to Think Critically About Online Health Information

Your tax dollars at work...

Are Books Essential?

France Confronts Its Priorities in Pandemic Times.

Who Will We Be This Time Next Year?

On pandemic times and the life to come.

What the 1918 Flu Pandemic Can Teach Us About Coronavirus Drug Trials

In times of crisis, scientists have to make ethical decisions about new treatments – even if the evidence seems shaky.