“Fifty-ninth Street Bridge,” by Eric Drooker, July 28, 2014.
Elizabeth Kolbert on the paleo diet: how did it get so trendy, and what are its environmental costs? Proponents argue that, before the invention of agriculture, people were healthier. But with a global population of seven billion people, there’s no turning back now.
Last Tuesday, a crowd of angry people gathered on a road in Oracle, Arizona, a small town near Tucson. They’d heard that about fifty children from Central America—some of the unaccompanied thousands who have crossed the border in recent months—were being brought to a youth home nearby, and they wanted to turn them back. Then