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Research for Rent, Solutions for Sale
January 06, 2015
“America’s think tank sector is far bigger, and far more influential, than most people realize,” Hans Gutbrod, a Thomas Pynchon character and the executive director of nonprofit think tank watchdog Transparify, said recently. “This underlines the importance for think ...

Gambling on Armageddon
December 30, 2014
When oil giant Mobil donated land containing the Texas City Prairie Preserve to the Nature Conservancy–America’s largest environmental group–in 1995, wildlife conservationists breathed a sigh of relief. At last, the endangered prairie chicken that had been threatened for ...

The Military’s Latest Enemy: Climate Change
November 05, 2014
To say that the United States military has its hands full right now is a bit of an understatement. We might not have anywhere near the troop deployment levels reached during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and there have been modest cuts to the defense ...

Cigarettes and Climate Change
July 02, 2014
I am a smoker, and I am in denial. It isn’t that I don’t believe that cigarettes will kill me. I do. It isn’t that I don’t believe that I’m addicted. I know I am. Like most addicts, my denial takes the form of dissonance: I rationalize, I procrastinate, I make token ...

Billionaire Donors and True Believers
April 23, 2014
Democrat billionaires are always looking for an excuse to justify their outsized political spending. Aren’t liberals supposed to be against the wealthy few pouring great gobs of money into the political system? How can they justify railing against this state of affairs while ...

Climate Will Change Faster Than We Will
February 26, 2014
Those who care deeply about addressing climate change now (or at least now-ish!) have a nasty little problem with which to contend. The short version of this problem is that “people don’t care enough about it.” It’s trickier than that, though. When the ...