Environment

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Brain Became the Diet of Worms

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Brain Became the Diet of Worms How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Brain Became the Diet of Worms

Can a presidential candidate afford to lose gray matter to parasites?

May 9, 2024 / Jeet Heer

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

Rep. Pramila Jayapal at a press conference on the upcoming debt limit in Washington, DC

Despairing? Here’s a Bold, Populist, Popular, and Progressive Domestic Agenda for 2025 and Beyond. Despairing? Here’s a Bold, Populist, Popular, and Progressive Domestic Agenda for 2025 and Beyond.

How the Congressional Progressive Caucus is driving the center of the Democratic Party in a new direction.

Apr 29, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Record-Breaking!

Record-Breaking! Record-Breaking!

2024 already has the hottest recorded temperatures.

Apr 25, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

Iranian oil refinery

In the Race to Lower Global Emissions, the Middle East Is Certainly Not Helping In the Race to Lower Global Emissions, the Middle East Is Certainly Not Helping

Some of the countries facing the biggest threat from the climate crisis seem all too intent on making it far worse.

Apr 25, 2024 / Juan Cole

Sarah Lloyd works on her farm in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like Here’s What a 21st-Century Rural New Deal Looks Like

A strategy for building a rural-urban working-class coalition.

Apr 23, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Earth Day

Earth Day Earth Day

April 22 is Earth Day! Let’s contribute towards making every day Earth Day.

Apr 22, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Climate change protest

This Earth Day, It’s Time to Make Polluters Pay This Earth Day, It’s Time to Make Polluters Pay

The costs of climate change are falling on those least responsible. This year, we must ask our elected officials for more than just flimsy commitments to sustainability.

Apr 22, 2024 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

When Will We Hit the Climate Tipping Point?

When Will We Hit the Climate Tipping Point? When Will We Hit the Climate Tipping Point?

You don’t need a weatherman to know...

Apr 19, 2024 / Peter Kuper

A Toxic Legacy of Mining In Peru

A Toxic Legacy of Mining In Peru A Toxic Legacy of Mining In Peru

Centuries of environmental exploitation in the small town have ensnared its inhabitants in a vicious cycle of displacement, irreversible health damage, and social conflict.

Apr 18, 2024 / Photo Essay / Tania Wamani

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