Author: Lance Garrison
We all need to eat in order to survive, but there isn’t just one way to do that. How you eat depends on where you live and what food is available. It can also depend on your heritage and your racial, ethnic, and religious background. Dietitians from diverse backgrounds can support culturally appropriate nutrition counseling and guidelines. But finding a professional who shares your background can be difficult since 80% of dietitians are White. Why does racial and ethnic diversity matter in the nutrition and dietetics profession? Tamara Melton, MS, a registered dietitian nutritionist and founder and executive director of Diversify Dietetics,…
We met the ecologist Karen Lips in Washington, D.C. One morning, she picked us up from a Metro station and took us to Shenandoah National Park, keen to show us a species of salamander.Ms. Lips describes herself as an amphibian forensic scientist. For decades, she has been researching the disappearance of amphibian species, and what she told us that day was shocking.As filmmakers, we’ve covered the extinction of species and other ecological issues in our work for years. Mammals, reptiles, insects, fish — much of the planet’s wild fauna is threatened with extinction. But no other vertebrate class is as…
The indictment unsealed in New York on Nov. 29 accusing an unnamed Indian government official of plotting the assassination of a Sikh separatist in America raises many grave questions. Chief among them: Is the partnership between the United States and India in peril?On the face of things, it would appear not. Washington has so far adopted a measured tone, urging cooperation and forgoing any outright condemnation of the Indian government for its potential role in the foiled plot. India, which in September angrily rejected what Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, called “credible allegations” linking Indian agents to the killing of…
I live at the base of Basalt Mountain, an ancient volcano that tops out at nearly 11,000 feet in the Roaring Fork Valley of western Colorado. An eruption 10 million years ago contributed to the contours of the landscape. In the mornings I drink strong coffee from a U.S. Forest Service mug, and I look out the window at the light on the peaks, at the wild turkeys pecking in the yard, at the deer so tame that I could touch them.I have spent my career working on climate change — not theoretically but in the trenches, crawling under trailers…
Former House Representative Liz Cheney’s recently published book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” discusses the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, its aftermath and the repercussions for the United States and democracy. In this audio essay, the Opinion columnist Carlos Lozada and the staff writer Katherine Miller talk about what the book reveals about the G.O.P. and the last bastion of moderate Republicans following the insurrection.(A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like…
Ten visions of postwar scenarios for Gaza from politicians, academics, activists and analysts.
It seems obvious to say, but if you want a real sense of the differences between America’s two major parties — and if you want a sense of what the future could bring if either party wins full control of the federal government next year — all you have to do is look at the states.Where Republicans have gained this kind of full control over state legislatures and statehouses, they have used that authority in pursuit of policies meant to curtail the ability of people in their states to live as they please.You know what this looks like. It’s the…
One of the greatest astonishments of “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary Collage,” on display through Dec. 31 at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, is that no major institution has ever before mounted a comprehensive showcase of work by Black collage artists. One of the most original things about the exhibition, in other words, is the fact of its existence.It is difficult to capture in language even a hint of the scope and the ambition of the more than 80 works in this show. They range from jewel-like to vast, from the deceptively simple to the mind-bogglingly complex. These works make…
The mornings are dark, the late afternoons are dusky, and before we finish making dinner, the daylight is gone. As we approach the darkest days of the year, we’re confronted with the darkness of wars, a dysfunctional government, fentanyl deaths, mass shootings and reports of refugees crawling through the Darién Gap or floundering in small boats in the Mediterranean. And we cannot avoid the tragedy of climate change with its droughts, floods, fires and hurricanes. Indeed, the world is pummeled with misfortune.We can count ourselves lucky if we do not live in a war zone or a place without food…
To the Editor:Re “The Complicated Truth About Recycling,” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 3):We all need to recycle paper, cardboard, glass and metal, and compost yard waste and food scraps. But we need to be honest about the failure of plastic recycling.Americans are increasingly aware that over 94 percent of the plastics they use are not recycled, because they’re not recyclable. There are too many different colors and different polymers, and thousands of different chemical additives that make it very difficult to recycle plastics. The plastics industry has known this for years, but it has plowed millions of…