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
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
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
Inhumanity unfolding at the border.
Nov 28, 2018 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
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
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
There’s No Global Warming, Because It’s Cold Outside There’s No Global Warming, Because It’s Cold Outside
...and other mysteries solved by President-Detective Trump.
Nov 27, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion
Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.
Nov 21, 2018 / William D. Hartung
Can the Blue Wave Deliver a Green New Deal? Can the Blue Wave Deliver a Green New Deal?
The base is demanding a bold plan from the newly empowered Democrats—and the planet is crying out for it.
Nov 20, 2018 / Christopher D. Cook
As Toxic Smoke Blankets California, Who Has the Ability to Escape? As Toxic Smoke Blankets California, Who Has the Ability to Escape?
While the wealthy can flee toward cleaner air, the poorest have no choice but to stay put.
Nov 17, 2018 / Gabriel Thompson