The thing that is really making me feel hopeless lately is thinking about what regressive oligarchy will do to our planet. This summer, on my way home from Scandinavia, I looked out the window and saw something I never dreamt of: glaciers. And it may be my only chance. Greenland is magnificent.

In this stressful freaking week, these knuckleheads understood the assignment: crowd onto my office chair and simultaneously heat and wrench my lower back.