Science

Misunderstanding Darwin

Natural selection’s secular critics get it wrong.

  • Ned Block
  • Philip Kitcher

God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?

  • Tara McKelvey

State of the Nation: Getting Warmer

When it comes to global warming, the public has consistently manifested one strikingly widespread misperception.

  • Jon Krosnick
  • Ariel Malka
  • David Scott Yeager

Living With Coal

Coal sits at the center of the most inconvenient truth about global-warming policy.

  • David G. Victor
  • Richard K. Morse

View from the Mountaintop

Coal may not remain the cheapest source of electric power for much longer.

  • Richard Heinberg

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

  • Evgeny Morozov

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Malpractice

When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules.

  • Dean Baker

Accidental Billionaire

How do we decide what is individual talent and what is luck?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Against Cyber-Utopianism

Reflections on information technology and democracy. 

  • Joshua Cohen

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

  • Evgeny Morozov

Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future.

  • Catherine Tumber

Not Free at Any Price

Why I switched to the One Laptop Per Child—and why I dropped it.

  • Richard M. Stallman

The Rising Tide

Time to adapt to climate change.

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider

Every Last Drop

Managing our way out of the water crisis.

  • Frank R. Rijsberman

Our Daily Bread

Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse.

  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Walter Falcon

Water Technologies

Case Study: What Works Best in Poor Countries?

  • Michael Kremer
  • Edward Miguel
  • Clair Null
  • Alix Zwane

In response to Outside the Big Box

National Small Business Association is the leading voice of America’s small-business owners

  • Todd O. McCracken

Outside the Big Box

Who speaks for small business?

  • Nicole D. Kazee
  • Michael Lipsky
  • Cathie Jo Martin

What Makes a Miracle

Some myths about the rise of China and India.

  • Pranab Bardhan

Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It

How to meet the security threat.

  • Jonathan Zittrain
with responses from
  • Bruce M. Owen
  • Susan Crawford
  • Roger A. Grimes
  • Richard M. Stallman
  • David D. Clark
  • Hal Varian

Knowing Right and Wrong

Is Morality a Natural Phenomenon?

  • Alex Byrne

Microreview: Louise Glück, Averno

Poems that challenge the supposed certainty of myths.

  • Zack Finch

Delivering Health Care

A case study on Cambodia

  • Michael Kremer
  • David Clingingsmith

Can We Stop Global Warming?

There is a lot we don’t know about climate change, but what we do know should motivate us to action.

  • Kerry Emanuel
with responses from
  • Nicholas Stern
  • David G. Victor & Danny Cullenward
  • Kirsten Oleson & Chandra Shekhar Sinha
  • Jeffrey Logan & Joanna Lewis & Michael B. Cummings
  • Judy Layzer & William Moomaw
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