Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos: An Environmental Debate
Pablo Escobar brought hippos to his private zoo, which was a part of his Hacienda Nápoles estate in Colombia, in the 1980s. It is one of the most enduring legacies…
Articles by Lily Powell
Democrats Want to Tax the Very Rich: Stop Saying it’s Radical
Many of the spending items in the tax bill Democrats are negotiating could be described as radical. After all, if we had reduced the cost of child care, expanded educational…
Green Spaces in Cities Are Good for Mental Health
Those who live in a city are automatically more likely to face mental illness. There’s a 40 percent higher risk of depression, a 20 percent higher risk of anxiety, and…
Best 2021 Summer Reads
Whatever you did this summer, I hope you all did it with a book in hand. Now, although I had a long to-be-read list for this summer, I didn’t hit…
The Texas Heartbeat Act
A new law that bans abortions from six weeks after a patient’s last menstrual period recently went into effect in Texas. This limit is well before many women even know they…
Recent Anti-Transgender Laws and Their Immediate Effects on Trans Youth
Arkansas became the first US state to ban physicians from providing gender-affirming treatment for transgender people under the age of 18. The General Assembly voted to override Republican Gov. Asa…