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Editor's Note:
Athens 2.0
by Paul Glastris
Tilting at Windmills
by Charles Peters
Ten Miles Square:
Cuba Notwithstanding
by Patrick C. Doherty
Code Red
How software companies could screw up Obama’s health care reform.
by Phillip Longman
Jail Break
How smarter parole and probation can cut the nation’s incarceration rate.
by Mark A. R. Kleiman
Special Report:
A Clear Cut Crisis
Tropical deforestation contributes more to global warming than all the vehicles on earth. Does the world have a plan to deal with it?
Introduction: Change in the Air
Past efforts to save tropical forests have largely failed. The world community, prompted by rising concerns about climate change, is finally considering a solution that might work.
by Roger D. Stone
The Long Hot Summer
Researchers are starting to make sense of a severe drought that ravaged the Amazon rainforest four years ago. Their findings are terrifying.
by Paul Brown
Big REDD
Right now, there’s more money to be made cutting tropical forests down than leaving them standing. Environmental policymakers are trying to reverse that equation.
by Rhett Butler
From Kyoto to Copenhagen
This December, the world community will meet in Denmark to fashion a new climate change treaty. Deforestation is on the agenda. What are the odds of a deal?
by David Adam
The Brazilian Dilemma
A nation struggles not to exploit its own greatest resource.
by Marcelo Leite
Algae Soup
Biofuels didn’t work out so well the first time around. Will the next generation be better?
by Mark Rice-Oxley
The Case for Big Ag
Industrial farming pollutes rivers, distorts politics, and hurts rural communities. But it might just save the rainforest.
by Michael Grunwald
Forests at Their Limit
One scientist’s ground-level view.
by George M. Woodwell
On Political Books:
Golden Erring
Once the embodiment of America’s possibilities, California has become the embodiment of the country’s delusions.
by T. A. Frank
Forgotten Warrior
Unknown outside the military, General William DePuy may have been the most influential soldier since World War II.
by Thomas E. Ricks
Don’t Worry, Honey, You’ll Make New Friends
Inside the new class of serial relocators.
by Doron Taussig
Better Living Through Chemistry
What the rural Midwest’s meth epidemic does, and doesn’t, say about the global economy.
by Charles Homans
Coke and Me
A Michael Moore-like British journalist investigates the world’s top soft-drink maker.
by Jamie Malanowski
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