Summertime photography

Here's a little motivation for all of you aspiring to be more of a morning person: These 18 sunrise photos in Vermont will get you up in the morning.

An international team of climate experts known as the World Weather Attribution initiative analyzed the late June heatwave in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and came to a preliminary conclusion that it was a roughly 1-in-1,000-year event. The extreme weather has bent roads, melted power cables, and triggered heat warnings for 50 million people in North America.

We're always talking about what it is we want our country to become, about how we can save ourselves as a people....But maybe the answer is not somewhere in the future distance; maybe the answer is one we already had, and somehow threw away.