“What If We Didn’t...?” is part of a new series from Mic — read more here. In a March 27 op-ed, John Paul Stevens controversially called for the repeal of the Second Amendment. In the New York Times ...

The climate is in crisis, but Ayana Elizabeth Johnson wants us to imagine life on the other side. Read her new book with us this October. What If We Get It Right? brings together a range of topics, ...

“There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not for us.” This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or amusingly, ...

In a traditionally slow news month such as August, any event of relative significance gets abundant coverage. Yet the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was not just an ...

What would happen if we burned through all of the fossil-fuel resources known to exist? In a paper published today in the journal Science Advances, a quartet of German, American, and British ...

In one version of the future, we will look back in horror at how we raised animals for food and are grateful for our generation who turned the tide. But in another, we will be eating and exploiting ...

Americans searching for a rallying cry for the cause of black men and women killed in police-involved incidents have found inspiration in recent years in "If We Must Die," a poem by Jamaican writer ...