In a world that consumes two billion cups of coffee each day, climate change is threatening the most popular species. How one ...

The January issue featured a story about the village in Sardinia where my paternal grandfather was born (“ Rites of Winter ,” ...

“The Role of His Life” (November 2024) gave me a deeper understanding of how the anti-Jewish movement in Germany started before World War II, and I was blown away by Leo Reuss’ passion for ...

I enjoyed the article about canine cognition (“Evolution of a Friendship”). When I got to the sentence about half of all the spending on pets being embezzled and gambled away by cats, I roared ...

Every year my heart breaks at the devastation and loss from forest wildfires (“Under Control,” April/May 2023). It is heartening to learn that communities are coming together to take the lead ...

What’s in a Name? I was disappointed to read of the renaming of Faneuil Hall (“The Long Hall,” January/February 2025). It is the same as tearing down the statue of a historical figure. We ...

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The aptly named “Healing in Hanoi” (November 2023) is a well-balanced examination of the thoughts and feelings people on both sides have about the Vietnam War. I have traveled many times to ...

The answer is no. The refuge development issue is about real people, and as much as the article highlighted the human angle, it was the wrong humans and the wrong angle.

“An American Tale” (December 2024) shows the worst and the best of the American character. One of the worst episodes of racism saw Japanese people sent to internment camps, for no good reason ...