Environment

Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them

Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them Other Universities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels—but Harvard Is Doubling Down on Them

It’s time for Harvard to kick the carbon lobby out of the Kennedy School. But don’t hold your breath.

May 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Wen Stephenson

Coal worker leads on tour of old coal facility

Just Because Big Coal Is Collapsing Doesn’t Mean Appalachia Has to Follow Just Because Big Coal Is Collapsing Doesn’t Mean Appalachia Has to Follow

Is an environmentally sustainable economic transition possible?

May 4, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Protesters for Berta Caceres

Berta Cáceres’s Killers Are Getting Good at the PR Game Berta Cáceres’s Killers Are Getting Good at the PR Game

State terrorists in Honduras have learned that to be effective, they can’t just kill and torture. They also have to be able to tell good stories.

May 3, 2016 / Greg Grandin

Oil Worker Bahrain

Did OPEC Just Start Preparing for the End of the Oil Era? Did OPEC Just Start Preparing for the End of the Oil Era?

The debacle in Doha may be the beginning of the end for the old oil order.

Apr 28, 2016 / Michael T. Klare

Flint bottled water

Lead Poisoning in Flint Is More Than a Health Crisis Lead Poisoning in Flint Is More Than a Health Crisis

It’s also an economic disaster.

Apr 27, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Bernie Sanders

The Lesson for Progressives in Bernie’s Pennsylvania Loss The Lesson for Progressives in Bernie’s Pennsylvania Loss

The primary unmasked once again the very real racial rift in Sanders’s support—and in progressive politics.

Apr 27, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan

A hazard sign indicating radiation

30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy? 30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy?

Or, how Ukraine learned to stop worrying and love its nuclear power plants.

Apr 25, 2016 / Dusty Christensen

Bernie Sanders leaves the Vatican

Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican

Sanders’s hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican.

Apr 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

Grassroots activists have pushed the needle far beyond the Democratic establishment.

Apr 15, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Democracy Spring

Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week

The Democracy Spring protests in DC are building the power needed to break our politics free of its corporate choke-hold.

Apr 14, 2016 / John Cavanagh

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