Voting for Unemployment
Even with 11.5 million people unemployed, it is sometimes difficult to tell who is unhappier—those who don't have jobs or those who do. While some unions have made concessions in wages because of the...
View ArticleForgotten Benefactor of Humanity
America has three living winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, two universally renowned and the other so little celebrated that not one person in a hundred would be likely to pick his face out of a police...
View ArticleBlood and Motherly Advice
WEAR a hat when it's cold. Balance your tires. Print clearly when addressing letters. Make reservations well before your travel date. If you find lost valuables and return them, you'll feel good about...
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Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity
America has three living winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, two universally renowned and the other so little celebrated that not one person in a hundred would be likely to pick his face out of a police...
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Green Surpise
Illustration by Pat Oliphant IF there is any issue on which this year's presidential contenders seem stereotyped, it is the environment. George W. Bush is seen as a pro-business oilman who would let...
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Hybrid Vigor
NOT long ago electric cars were going to save the world. Every major automaker was developing a battery-driven vehicle that would offer both freedom from petroleum and zero emissions (at least...
View ArticleIn Defense of C. S. Lewis
The glistening citadel of this dateline does not in fact exist, but to children it can be more real than many an actual place: Cair Paravel is the capital of Narnia, the setting of what was, until...
View ArticleLong Shot
Everybody knows about the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, from which the space shuttle flies. Many people know about Vandenberg Air Force Base, in central California, from which the military...
View ArticleWho Needs Harvard?
From the archives:Interviews: "Crying in the Kitchen Over Princeton" (September 7, 2004)Atlantic contributing editor Gregg Easterbrook on why the college-admissions process need not be a...
View ArticleSome Convenient Truths
If there is now a scientific consensus that global warming must be taken seriously, there is also a related political consensus: that the issue is Gloom City. In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore warns of...
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Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?
Also see:Interviews: "As the World Warms" Gregg Easterbrook talks about his cover story, "Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?," and the unexpected by-products of climate change."A 401(k) for a...
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A 401(k) for a Warming World
Clean Energy? Green Energy? Nuclear Energy? What will power the world's economies? Return to:"Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?" Climate change in the next century (and beyond) could be...
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The Sky Is Falling
Breakthrough ideas have a way of seeming obvious in retrospect, and about a decade ago, a Columbia University geophysicist named Dallas Abbott had a breakthrough idea. She had been pondering the...
View ArticleBuffalo Shuffle
Migrant workers: the Bills at a preseason "home" game in wealthy Toronto (Photo credit: Rick Stewart/Getty Images) The quirky 1998 indie movie Buffalo ’66, famed for its cameos (“Hey, wasn’t that guy...
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Privatize the Seas
A few years ago at the Double Musky Inn in Girdwood, Alaska, I had a halibut dinner so delicious, I can still taste that fish. Good restaurant? Yes, but even better fishery management. About a decade...
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Nobelist Adam Riess
Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University is one of three researchers just awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their part in the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. In 2009,...
View ArticleStar Power
This past fall, solar flareslarge jolts of energy from the sun—were forecast to interrupt communication and GPS devices. Nothing happened. In 2006, U.S. government researchers predicted that the next...
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Outage Outrage: The Politics of Electricity
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to run for president in 2016, but he can't even deal with a dismal power utility in his home state. Getty Images (left); Reuters President Barack Obama traveled to...
View ArticleHow the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers
Last year was a busy one for public giveaways to the National Football League. In Virginia, Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, who styles himself as a budget-slashing conservative crusader, took $4...
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Reminder: Most People Endangered by Football Don't Play in the NFL
A youth participates in a December NFL game's halftime program. (Chris Schneider / AP)On Sunday evening, the 48th Super Bowl will kick off, and millions of Americans will tune in—the Super Bowl has...
View ArticleAmerica's Creepy, Surveillance-Endorsing Love of NCIS
NCIS and its sibling NCIS: Los Angeles are the top-rated dramas on television, a distinction they have held for several years. Next season there will be a third iteration, which ones hopes will be...
View ArticleThe Rotten NFL Scheme at the Heart of the AT&T-DirecTV Merger
First Comcast wants Time-Warner’s cable division, now AT&T wants DirecTV, the satellite-based cable carrier. Needless to say these corporate giants have only your best interests in mind!Buried...
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What Happens When We All Live to 100?
For millennia, if not for eons—anthropology continuously pushes backward the time of human origin—life expectancy was short. The few people who grew old were assumed, because of their years, to have...
View ArticleHow Taxpayers Keep the NFL Rich
Over three marvelous spring days in 2015, the National Football League threw itself a party otherwise known as the annual draft. The NFL took over Chicago’s storied lakefront Grant Park, where, in...
View ArticleSmart Weapons Need to Be Smarter
In January, an Iranian gunner, using Russian equipment, fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at a Ukrainian passenger airliner, killing 176 people. When the airliner was shot down near Tehran, tensions...
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