I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant’s way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.
Subscribe and Save up to 55%
Not So Black And White | Mark Leviton Dorothy Roberts On The Myth Of Race
Guests | Doug Winter A photo essay on the guests of Loaves & Fishes in Sacramento, California
Filling The Void | Jari Chevalier Bruce K. Alexander On How Our Culture Is Making Us Addicted
Our Own Devices | Gianpaolo La Paglia A photo essay on people lost inside their phones
Before It’s Too Late | Mary DeMocker Mary Christina Wood On Avoiding Climate Disaster
Readers Write on “Guests” A mysterious presence, a troupe of anarchists, a nocturnal visitor
We Need To Talk | Amy Amoroso Anne Hallward On Breaking Our Silence And Overcoming Shame
Readers Write on “Being Busy” A family vacation, a secret romance, a refugee’s plight
White Lies | Mark Leviton Ijeoma Oluo On Privilege, Power, And Race
Poetry By Tony Hoagland “Though grudging at first, / he fell like the rain, with his eyes wide open, / willing to change.”
Unfair Advantage | Tracy Frisch Stacy Mitchell On How Amazon Undermines Local Economies
Readers Write on “Men And Women” A teacher’s legacy, a professor’s dilemma, a stranger’s confessions
The Holiness Hidden Within The World | Laura Esther Wolfson Rabbi Rachel Timoner On Rediscovering Judaism
Displaced Persons | Clemens Kalischer A photo essay on European war refugees into the U.S. in 1947 and 1948
Prisoner Of Hope | Judith Hertog Cornel West’s Quest For Justice
Father Figure | Zun Lee A photo essay on black fathers and their children in the Bronx and Harlem
Our Grand Delusion | Corey Fischer Norman Fischer On The Tyranny Of The Self
A Long Life | Raffaele Montepaone A photo essay on the rural people of Calabria, in southern Italy, who live an unusually long time
Sunken Treasures | Michael Shapiro Sylvia Earle On Why We Need To Protect The Oceans
Readers Write on “Threats” A pack of dogs, a husband’s secret, an obsessive ex