California: Man Is Sentenced to Death for Wildfire
An arsonist was sentenced to death on Monday for murdering five men who died of heart attacks during a wildfire that ripped through the hills east of Los Angeles a decade...
Month: January 2013
A World of Its Own
Amy Wilentz further explores Haiti, a country that continues to...
Manhattan Concierge Runs a Foundation to Help Haiti
Yves Deshommes, who works for a Manhattan office building, also runs a foundation to help struggling Haitians in the rural area of...
Obama’s Second-Term Options on the Environment
What Obama can do to cut climate risk and improve the environment in his second...
An Alarm in the Offing on Climate Change
A draft report from a federal committee warns that if humanity fails to get a handle on emissions, climate change is likely to accelerate and threaten human welfare in many...
Record Heat Fuels Widespread Fires in Australia
An unprecedented heat wave has sparked raging bushfires across some of the country’s most populated regions, pushing firefighters to their...
The Wounds of a Nation Still Bleed
The “Fred Voodoo” referred to in the title of Amy Wilentz’s new book represents to her all the stereotypes outsiders have come to attach to...
Alex Webb: Rendering a Complex World, in Color and Black-and-White
For the Magnum photographer Alex Webb, how a picture turns out isn't always up to...
Milder Temperatures Ease Australian Wildfire Fears
Firefighters battled wildfires in southeastern Australia on Tuesday as authorities warned that high temperatures and winds had led to “catastrophic”...
Mournful, Angry Views of Ireland’s Famine
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in Hamden displays accounts from the time of the potato famine of 1845-1852, but its strongest works are...
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