NASA launches robotic spacecraft that will visit Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid the size of several city blocks with the hope of finding clues to the chaotic beginnings of our solar system—and a window to the origin of life. ↩︎ posted Sept. 11, 2016 OSIRIS-REx lifts off aboard an
We asked writers and thinkers to tell us: What were the most important events of 2015—and what were the least?
Environmentalists are increasingly hugging people, not trees. Can solving climate change and achieving “climate justice” become the same thing?
Mandatory minimum sentences are the product of good intentions, but good intentions do not always make good policy. That sentence on mandatory minimum sentencing—that bugbear of criminal justice reform—isn’t from the Center for American Progress or a sentimental Nicholas Kristof op-ed. It’s from a report
