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Cover the COP26 Climate Summit Like Our Lives Depend on It Cover the COP26 Climate Summit Like Our Lives Depend on It

Summit reporting is always rife with tabloid-style clickbait. COP26 demands better.

Oct 28, 2021 / Andrew McCormick

The Most Important Climate Summit in History Is a Local News Story Too

The Most Important Climate Summit in History Is a Local News Story Too The Most Important Climate Summit in History Is a Local News Story Too

COP26 matters to every person on Earth, so it’s a story for every newsroom on Earth.

Oct 21, 2021 / Andrew McCormick

Congress’s Climate Bill Is a Major Story. Journalists Are Missing the Most Important Part.

Congress’s Climate Bill Is a Major Story. Journalists Are Missing the Most Important Part. Congress’s Climate Bill Is a Major Story. Journalists Are Missing the Most Important Part.

If the US doesn’t get this right before November’s climate summit, it’ll severely limit the country’s power to influence global climate action.

Sep 23, 2021 / Andrew McCormick

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Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue

The good place… Overconsumed…

Aug 24, 2021 / Our Readers

Pakistan-Afghanistan Conflict

There Goes the Neighborhood: Pakistan Is Uneasy Over the Taliban’s Return There Goes the Neighborhood: Pakistan Is Uneasy Over the Taliban’s Return

Despite their differing responses to the Taliban victory, Pakistanis are united in believing they are not to blame.

Aug 18, 2021 / Column / Hasan Ali

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Coverage of the “Code Red” Climate Report Was Good. Here’s How to Sustain It. Coverage of the “Code Red” Climate Report Was Good. Here’s How to Sustain It.

From now to COP26 in November journalists should focus especially on climate justice and climate solutions—and we should play the story so much bigger.

Aug 12, 2021 / Andrew McCormick

House burning in Dixie fire

“This Was Avoidable,” Climate Activists Say About Grim New Science “This Was Avoidable,” Climate Activists Say About Grim New Science

The United Nations’ latest climate report says capping global temperature rise at 1.5° C is imperative—and still within reach through immediate, aggressive action.

Aug 9, 2021 / Mark Hertsgaard

Bill and Melinda Gates

Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates’s Halo? Is the Shine Starting to Come Off Bill Gates’s Halo?

The billionaire’s role in perpetuating vaccine apartheid in the name of protecting intellectual property rights has begun to draw criticism.

May 7, 2021 / Tim Schwab

Israel Palestine Apartheid

Yes, Israel Is Obviously an Apartheid State Yes, Israel Is Obviously an Apartheid State

The Human Rights Watch report is a valuable, sober, and deliberately uninflammatory piece of scholarship—which won’t make a damn bit of difference.

May 5, 2021 / Eric Alterman

The Suffering Underclass of War-Torn Yemen

The Suffering Underclass of War-Torn Yemen The Suffering Underclass of War-Torn Yemen

“I feel the pain of my homeland as they do,” he said. “There’s no difference between us and them. Our only difference is the color of our skin.”

Feb 10, 2021 / Nicolas Niarchos

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