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Through a generous grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Sustainable Princeton has been able to fund a study of Princeton's...

Most of us were raised to be good people, but we live in an era when it is impossible to be good. Sure, we do all the things that good peop...

With iconic actors Streep and Hanks playing iconic characters Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee in "The Post," it's time for a ...

Living in New Jersey just got more special, now that we're the only remaining state that doesn't allow drivers to pump their own gas...

The move by the Trump administration to open all U.S. coastal waters to drilling brings back memories of the 2008 election and the Republic...

Sometimes, with all the criticism flying around, it's worth writing down the world you wish for. Here's an ongoing draft of my versi...

For years I've been writing critiques of a false narrative about invasive species that has recurrently found its way into books, newspa...

Preface: Actors study for a role in part by seeking in themselves aspects of the character they wish to portray onstage. That technique, or...

I know. A lot of you have been feeling guilty about how we humans are causing the 6th great extinction event in earth's history. 40% of ...

What sort of cat wears a hat, wreaks havoc wherever it goes, makes a monstrous mess that entertains as it appalls, turns the world red from ...

Here are two examples of what can be called Climate Think: If we viewed terrorism the way we view climate change, there'd be no securi...

The mass shooting in Las Vegas, gruesome and horrific, is just the top layer of a cake made of crazy. Increasingly, acts of insane mass viol...

Text from the president's address to the U.N . earlier this week provides a good example of how the greatest threat to our future is bei...

August in an incompetent president's first year has become a time of foreboding. That sense of dread is part of the fallout from voters...

Many of us made it through last year's primaries and election, and the first six months of the Trump administration, without hearing abo...

There's a famous quote of Mark Twain's about the illusions of adolescence: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignoran...

A pretty good crowd showed up at Princeton University for James Baker's talk entitled "A Conservative Approach to Climate Change...