Hitting the Books: We are the frogs in the boiling pot, it's time we started governing like it.

Climate change isn't going away, and it isn't going to get any better -- at least if we keep legislating as we have been. In Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, a multidisciplinary collection of subject matter experts discuss the increasingly intertwined fates of American ecology and democracy, arguing that only by strengthening our existing institutions will we be able to weather the oncoming "long emergency." In the excerpt below, contributing author and A...