Environment

Betsy DeVos Hearing

The White House Has Hosted a Predators’ Ball of Corruption The White House Has Hosted a Predators’ Ball of Corruption

Here’s how the incoming Democratic Congress can expose it and make the case for bold reform.

Dec 6, 2018 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Mandate for Left Leadership

A Mandate for Left Leadership A Mandate for Left Leadership

Lessons from the neoliberal revolution.

Dec 5, 2018 / Feature / Kate Aronoff

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These Utah Activists Are Determined to Stop Trump From Stealing Our Public Lands These Utah Activists Are Determined to Stop Trump From Stealing Our Public Lands

A year after Trump shrunk Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante, Native Americans, green groups, and cities are fighting back.

Dec 4, 2018 / Jimmy Tobias

Sunrise activists

Want the Youth Vote in 2020? Champion the Green New Deal Now. Want the Youth Vote in 2020? Champion the Green New Deal Now.

This is just the beginning—a generation of climate voters is ready to engage with every part of the democratic process to confront this crisis.

Dec 3, 2018 / StudentNation / Jesse Meisenhelter

LIVE: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall

LIVE: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall LIVE: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall

Tune in at 7 pm today for a town-hall event featuring Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, Shailene Woodley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and more!

Dec 3, 2018 / The Nation

Jonathan Franzen’s Birdbrain Climate Pessimism

Jonathan Franzen’s Birdbrain Climate Pessimism Jonathan Franzen’s Birdbrain Climate Pessimism

In his latest collection of nonfiction, The End of the End of the Earth, Franzen puts forth a baffling, avian-centric manifesto on the climate crisis. 

Dec 3, 2018 / Alex Shephard

Michelle Obama 2016 DNC speech

Where Are the Politics in Michelle Obama’s New Memoir? Where Are the Politics in Michelle Obama’s New Memoir?

Amy Wilentz on Becoming, Kai Wright on midterm victories, and Tom Athanasiou on climate change.

Nov 29, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Tear-Gassing Liberty

Tear-Gassing Liberty Tear-Gassing Liberty

Inhumanity unfolding at the border.

Nov 28, 2018 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Mountaintop removal

Appalachia Already Has a Plan to Get Past Coal Appalachia Already Has a Plan to Get Past Coal

Green energy, jobs training, affordable housing: We just need to fund it.

Nov 27, 2018 / Michelle Chen

US Climate

Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism

Only by creating an intersectional movement for change at home and abroad can we fight like hell for the solutions we all know are necessary.

Nov 27, 2018 / Kate Kizer and Stephen Miles

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