Environmental Geography

When I was in elementary and middle school in Virginia in the 1970s, we learned about the Civil War from many sources, including battlefield...

Image: HOTLITTLEPOTATO for Wired magazine. From Schoolhouse Rock and whatever amount of civics classes have survived the regimes of h...

Map by Neil Freeman, 2012 Click to enlarge When Neil Freeman's imaginative map of the United States was first tossed over my digita...

(With apologies to Jonathan Swift .) In a hail of bullets, students at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were thrust i...

PRI journalist Jason Margolis reports that even with recently rising wages, the United States remains one of the world's most inequitabl...

Library of Congress researcher Shameema Rahman discusses several failed efforts to count federal laws , and does not offer an estimate. Blog...

Avery Island, Louisiana is very high on the list of places I have never been but to which I feel a strong connection. Since I started gett...

Graph: U.S. Energy Information Administration In recent years, I have noticed wind turbines in a lot of new locations, and it is not my ...

Congress has finally gotten around to doing something  about sexual harassment by its own members, but true accountability remains elusive. ...

I sometimes hear it suggested that musicians and other artists should keep politics out of their work and "just" perform. More tha...