Environment

Cancun Climate

This Election Has Exposed the Climate Movement’s Lack of Political Muscle This Election Has Exposed the Climate Movement’s Lack of Political Muscle

The climate test this election is: Do you believe in science?

Oct 31, 2016 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

Ballot Box Hand

The Progressive Candidates Who Are Shaking Up This Election The Progressive Candidates Who Are Shaking Up This Election

John Nichols on the best candidates, plus Katrina vanden Heuvel on Tom Hayden, and the environmental journalist arrested for doing her job.

Oct 27, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Dakota Pipeline police

Militarized Police Are Cracking Down on Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Militarized Police Are Cracking Down on Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters

As police prepare to clear a camp set up in the pipeline's path, human-rights groups are concerned about abuses by law enforcement. 

Oct 26, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

From Black Lives Matter to the Fight for $15: Why Americans Are in Revolt

From Black Lives Matter to the Fight for $15: Why Americans Are in Revolt From Black Lives Matter to the Fight for $15: Why Americans Are in Revolt

Journalist Sarah Jaffe celebrates the social movements that are rocking the country.

Oct 21, 2016 / Q&A / Astra Taylor

Amy Goodman Dakota Access

Amy Goodman: ‘The State Cannot Stop This Journalism.’ Amy Goodman: ‘The State Cannot Stop This Journalism.’

Goodman goes free as a North Dakota judge concludes that covering the Dakota Access Pipeline is not a crime.

Oct 20, 2016 / Lizzy Ratner

World Environment Day in El Salvador

El Salvador Ruling Offers a Reminder of Why the TPP Must Be Defeated El Salvador Ruling Offers a Reminder of Why the TPP Must Be Defeated

Obama is waging a full-court press to pass the unpopular trade treaty after the November elections.

Oct 19, 2016 / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

Hillary Clinton Gore Climate

The Climate Movement Has to Elect Hillary Clinton—and Then Give Her Hell The Climate Movement Has to Elect Hillary Clinton—and Then Give Her Hell

Clinton’s no friend of the earth, but she can be pressured. Trump, on the other hand, would be an ecological and moral disaster.

Oct 18, 2016 / Bill McKibben

Amy Goodman Dakota Access

North Dakota’s War on the First Amendment Threatens Everyone’s Right to Know North Dakota’s War on the First Amendment Threatens Everyone’s Right to Know

Charges against Amy Goodman were rejected. But warrants and arrests continue to threaten dissenters, observers, journalists–and honest debate.

Oct 18, 2016 / John Nichols

Hillary Clinton and Steel Worker

What Hillary Clinton Has to Offer Ken Bone What Hillary Clinton Has to Offer Ken Bone

She has a real plan for coal country. Donald Trump has incoherent promises.

Oct 18, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Democracy Spring Protesters

It’s Time for the Left to Claim a Few Victories It’s Time for the Left to Claim a Few Victories

The country is shunning Trump, Hillary Clinton said “systemic racism,” and the Paris climate agreement goes into effect in three weeks.

Oct 17, 2016 / Rebecca Gordon

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