Rachel Riederer

@readerer

The curious appeal of the country legend in a divided nation

Our digital dependency has created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.

The militant vegans who rushed Biden’s victory speech are trying to be heard amid a cacophony of tiny interest groups.

How Wikipedia managed to stay fun and weird after 20 years

The genesis of a generational conflict

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist recasts our relationship with the environment.

The new HBO series raises the specter of an uninhabitable continent.

A plan to eliminate animal farming relies on science and startups.

A new book traces the history of orca hunters and how Americans turned against them.

Inside the radical movement to gain rights for ecosystems—and save the environment

In his new book, "Junk Raft," Marcus Eriksen discovers a sea filled with tiny particles of harmful plastic.

The unlikely rise—and anti-democratic impulses—of seasteading.

The troubling history of popular science.

Silicon Valley says asteroid mining will end Earth's conflict over natural resources. It won't.