January/February 2018

2018 January/February

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To build the world we want, we must dare to dream big, out loud, in public, with explosions of utopian imagination
Feature

Hope Trumps Nope: A Blueprint for Resistance

To build the world we want, we must dare to dream big and out loud

By Naomi Klein

December 14, 2017

Yaa Konadu sits outside the farmhouse in Ghana that Newmont took away from her. Company workers spray-painted "Done" on the wall.
Feature

Women in Ghana Battle a U.S.-Owned Gold Mine for Land and Livelihood

Mining giant Newmont has been seizing farms and dumping cyanide into waterways

By Sophia Jones

December 14, 2017

David Johnson, a retired construction worker and Trump supporter
Feature

Talking About Climate Change in Trump Country

In Minnesota, "Rural Climate Dialogues" get people across the political spectrum to discuss global warming

By Madeline Ostrander

December 14, 2017

Without an adequate water supply, the receding Salton Sea leaves behind dead fish and toxic, asthma-inducing dust.
Feature

The Salton Sea Is Dying—We Can't Let That Happen

Millions of birds depend on a healthy Salton Sea—so do the area's kids

Text and photographs by David Bacon

December 14, 2017

Halema'uma'u Crater, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park--the once (and future?) home of the 'alal crow
Escape

In Search of an Extinct Crow on a Live Volcano

I listen for its musical caw but am, alas, 'alalā-less

By Matt Jaffe

December 14, 2017