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The Future in Context

Oct 29, 2021

As world leaders gather for the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next week, a group of scientists who are also mothers are fighting to preserve the climate for their children here at home. Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson spoke with Professor Joellen Russell is a Science Mom – an oceanographer at...


Oct 24, 2021

The former heavyweight boxing champion and philanthropist floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee, danced at the edge of death and spoke truth to power. A new Ken and Sarah Burns documentary compels us to take a hard look at ourselves in the mirror of the "great one."


Oct 6, 2021

Governing’s humanities scholar in residence, Clay Jenkinson, lays out four coping strategies for dealing with the troubled state of America. One of them demands something of us for the common good.


Oct 2, 2021

A new report from the federal government brings urgency to a veteran geologist’s longtime warnings about the crippling of the Colorado River.

Geochemist James Powell is a longtime observer of the complex interworking of Lake Powell, Lake Mead and the Upper Basin of the Colorado River. He has written 14 books on the...