What Happened To the Great Salt Lake?

Keith Preston

2 years ago

Our September 4/11, 2023 Issue

FEATURED

The Great Salt Lake Is Becoming Too Salty to Support Life

From brine flies to brine shrimp to eared grebes to pronghorn and buffalo, the lake supports an exquisite ecosystem whose collapse is literally making people sick.

KATHARINE S. WALTER

FROM THIS ISSUE

Ohio Voters Protected Their Last Shot at Representative Democracy

The defeat of Issue 1 is an unequivocal sign that Ohioans understood the connection between democracy and abortion—and that enthusiasm for abortion rights has not waned in the wake of Dobbs.

AMY LITTLEFIELD FOR THE NATION

Is Bidenomics Ready for the Campaign Trail?

The president is touting the strength of the economy in his reelection campaign. But there’s no guarantee voters will bite.

CHRIS LEHMANN

Undercover With the New Alt Right

For 11 months, I pretended to be a far-right extremist. I discovered a radical youth movement trying to infiltrate the Republican Party.

AMANDA MOORE

What Was Digital Media?

Ben Smith’s Traffic charts the boom and bust of a new age of online journalism.

KEVIN LOZANO

Criminal Investigation

The Nation just published an exclusive scoop about the criminal investigation of James O’Keefe, notorious founder of Project Veritas. Westchester County prosecutors are pursuing charges against the Right’s premiere “gotcha video” scammer for scamming his own donors—a veritable “Potemkin village of financial propriety.” O’Keefe’s alleged crimes include spending “an excessive amount of donor funds in the last three years on personal luxuries,” and there is a civil suit filed against him for breach of contract and fiduciary duties. Read the full investigation by private investigator Liz Farkas and reporter Matthew Phelan here: “Exclusive: James O’Keefe Is Now Under Investigation for Looting Project Veritas.”
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