September 8, 2017The courts may have to do what too many of our elected officials have so far failed to do: acknowledge scientific reality.
May 23, 2017The GOP is trying to make federal agencies more industry friendly — and many worry that that will mean using bunk science.
May 18, 2017By targeting specific regional efforts alongside more general environmental justice funding, the Trump administration might have inadvertently given opponents a means to fight back.
April 24, 2017It seems to be a media rule: If you’re “not a scientist,” pick the wrong one you like as your go-to authority.
February 14, 2017The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship and “alternative facts.” It’s a battle for the future, basic decency and the people we love.
January 30, 2017In a time when facts don’t matter and science is being muzzled, American democracy is the real victim.
December 16, 2016A new movie about the African-American women mathematicians in the NASA space program adds critical depth and detail to the legend of The Right Stuff.
December 7, 2015“The tug of war between reason and faith is the undercurrent of our society in what some see as a fundamentalist era," Bill Moyers has said. “It's an ancient conflict, a long-running argument, but with all the fear, violence, and intolerance that grip our times, we have to come to terms with the fact that it must be reason and faith, not reason versus faith. Otherwise, we would tear our society apart." This is a ...
June 17, 2015"Politically motivated” science can also be good science, writes the author of Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes.
March 2, 2015We’re closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth, one that goes beyond science and religion.
