Energy

Wake-Up Alarm!

Wake-Up Alarm! Wake-Up Alarm!

The hottest recorded 12 months in history.

Jun 13, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Steve Schwarzman speaking to students

Why Plutocrats Are Rallying to Trump Why Plutocrats Are Rallying to Trump

Civic lessons won’t sway America’s oligarchs. Instead, we need forthright economic populism to bring them to heel.

Jun 10, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Using Up Our Water Supplies…

Using Up Our Water Supplies… Using Up Our Water Supplies…

Like there’s no tomorrow.

Jun 10, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever

The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever

With help from Project 2025, Trump will stall all attempts to avert the climate crisis, accelerating a catastrophe that we have only a few years to prevent.

Jun 5, 2024 / Feature / Bill McKibben

9/11 memorial at Bellevue Hospital

Saudi Arabia’s September 11 Connection and the Contradictions of American Foreign Policy Saudi Arabia’s September 11 Connection and the Contradictions of American Foreign Policy

How the state that aided terrorism on US soil has become an indispensable ally that the Biden administration is determined to placate at all costs.

May 29, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Bruce, after arriving in the middle of the night, waits to enter a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 7, 2023, in Grundy, Virginia.

It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Win Back Rural Voters It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Win Back Rural Voters

Putting together a Democratic majority in 2024 requires winning back some portion of the rural working class. The good news is that it can be done. Here’s how.

May 17, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson and Anthony Flaccavento

firefighters

News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters

Bootstrapped publications like mine do their best to keep the news alive in communities now struggling just to survive.

May 15, 2024 / Jane Braxton Little

Climate activists protest on the first day of the Exxon Mobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on October 22, 2019.

How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists

A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.

May 15, 2024 / Molly Taft

Climate Change Isn’t Child’s Play

Climate Change Isn’t Child’s Play Climate Change Isn’t Child’s Play

The powerful El Niño weather event and climate change have pushed global temperatures to new heights.

May 3, 2024 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

Record-Breaking!

Record-Breaking! Record-Breaking!

2024 already has the hottest recorded temperatures.

Apr 25, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

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