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Green New Deal

Bill McKibben: The ‘Debate’ Over Global Warming Was Always Phony Bill McKibben: The ‘Debate’ Over Global Warming Was Always Phony

But now we have a small window to stave off the worst-case climate-change scenario.

Apr 25, 2019 / Jon Wiener

Margerie Glacier

Bill McKibben: ‘We’re Capable of Doing Remarkable Things to Combat Climate Change’ Bill McKibben: ‘We’re Capable of Doing Remarkable Things to Combat Climate Change’

Plus: Richard J. Evans on Eric Hobsbawm.

Apr 25, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Green New Deal

The Green New Deal Isn’t a Wish List—It’s Good Strategy The Green New Deal Isn’t a Wish List—It’s Good Strategy

Climate policies that explicitly advance both racial and economic justice will help build a broader, more popular movement.

Apr 23, 2019 / Guido Girgenti and Aru Shiney-Ajay

It’s Time to Pay Our Climate Debt to Countries Like Mozambique

It’s Time to Pay Our Climate Debt to Countries Like Mozambique It’s Time to Pay Our Climate Debt to Countries Like Mozambique

As a start, the US and other Western countries must help rebuild the vast areas destroyed by Cyclone Idai.

Apr 22, 2019 / Ben Ehrenreich

Whitman College members rally for fossil fuel divestment

Trump Leaks the Blueprints for the Climate Death Star Trump Leaks the Blueprints for the Climate Death Star

From Keep It in the Ground to divestment to school strikes, climate activists are hitting the bad guys where it hurts.

Apr 15, 2019 / Bill McKibben

David Bernhardt

A Former Oil-Industry Lobbyist Is Now In Charge of America’s Public Lands A Former Oil-Industry Lobbyist Is Now In Charge of America’s Public Lands

Questions about conflicts of interest and transparency shadow newly confirmed Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.

Apr 12, 2019 / Adam Federman

Green New Deal

What ‘Living in Truth’ Looks Like in the Face of Climate Catastrophe What ‘Living in Truth’ Looks Like in the Face of Climate Catastrophe

Bill McKibben has shown us what it means to live within the truth of our struggle for human survival. Will a new generation find the courage to do the same?

Apr 11, 2019 / Wen Stephenson

Gillibrand

Kirsten Gillibrand’s Journey to the Left Kirsten Gillibrand’s Journey to the Left

Joan Walsh on the candidate, Eric Foner on Reconstruction, and Amy Wilentz on Jared Kushner.

Apr 11, 2019 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue

Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay…

Apr 4, 2019 / Our Readers

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Lots of Politicians Preach Civility, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Practices It Lots of Politicians Preach Civility, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Practices It

After telling allies it’s “not acceptable” to disparage a Republican who differs with her on climate strategy, AOC explains: “That’s the difference between me and Trump.”

Apr 1, 2019 / John Nichols

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