A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked:

Osha Gray Davidson in Rolling Stone: The Great Burning: How Wildfires Are Threatening the West

Courtney Subramanian at TIME’s Healthland blog: Rebranding Climate Change as a Public Health Issue

Harold Pollack at Washington Post’s Wonkblog: 85 million Americans lack dental coverage. Fixing that requires more than just money.

Abraham Lustgarten at ProPublica: Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties

Heather Rousseau at NPR’s Shots blog: In Rural Uganda, Homemade Bikes Make the Best Ambulances