Timothy A. Schuler

Recent books on civic budgeting and economic justice, architecture and repair, solar power, fossil capital, Black archives, the value of weeds, and more.

Public goods underpin democracy. The billionaires and technofascists ruling our new gilded age threaten to rob us of the things we hold in common.

The loss of biodiversity, the greed of the animal agriculture industry, the current assault on our public health infrastructure — all are making the next pandemic likelier than ever.

In the next decades, climate migration will redraw the demographic map of America. Two recent books tell an unsettling story of migration and displacement that is already underway.

There are many terms for the transformations that the Arkansas Delta has undergone over more than a century: settlement, reclamation, improvement. Here’s another: trauma.

For years Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae has been a sanctuary for islanders unable to access conventional shelter. It also belongs to a deep Hawaiian history of resistance, inclusion, and care.

In the Flint Hills of Kansas there are cattle ranches and art galleries, old barns and new architecture, ghost towns and growing cities. And there is the last stand of tallgrass prairie in America.