Elizabeth Kolbert

Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the last 15 years, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, has been Congress’s mo... See more

For the last 15 years, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, has been Congress’s most outspoken member on climate change. In 2012, he had a sign made up that showed the Earth as seen from space. “Time to Wake Up,” it said. The sign became ... See more

Last summer, more than a hundred and fifty staff members at the Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to the agency's head, Lee Zeldin, outlining their concerns about his leadership. Topping the list was Zeldin's naked partisanship. The administra... See more

Berlin residents outside a railway station after a bombing raid, in March, 1945. My grandmother's childhood in Weimar Germany was, at least as she described it, idyllic. She grew up in Grunewald, a leafy section of Berlin, swimming and boating in the dist... See more