What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the French economist Gabriel Zucman, who, along with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, is advocating for a progressive wealth tax to solve inequality, which has been embraced...

The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world. A decade ago they were heroes, and more recently they’ve become v...

The 400 wealthiest Americans now pay a lower rate than the middle class.

Bill McKibben on what would happen if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries decided to move away from fossil fuels, and on how the financial sector affects climate change.

As Anne Hidalgo declares war on the car, drivers rage at the disruptions, but supporters credit her with preparing Paris for a hotter future.

The shift in the UK is an important victory for environmentalists in their fight against fossil fuels

Cameras and sensors in the sky now do most of the scanning for telltale smoke, but in some areas, the Forest Service still relies on eyes in a tower. Russ Dalton is one of the last of the breed.

America's public lands are owned by the people and managed on our behalf by federal and state governments. That means you get to use them for all sorts of fun things for little to no charge. Here's ho...