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Most of us are living in a landscape designed for the car. “These days, so much of urban planning is undoing the mistake of the recent past.”

Is it possible to understand the persistent lag in vaccination rates as a function of failed metaphor? That is to say, as a failure of language—the language of data, the language of science, the language of political rhetoric (to name just...

Some days, I sail on an empty boat to a country I don’t know. / With my navy-blue passport, I can go anywhere.

What is beauty for? What is its source? Polish artist Alicja Wróblewska thinks about such things as she fashions fanciful sculptures, snaps photographs, and creates collages both analog and digital to explore the impact of plastics on ocean...

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.