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Letters From the January 1-8, 2018, Issue Letters From the January 1-8, 2018, Issue

What happened—and what didn’t… The postmortem continues… Troubling the water [web only]…

Dec 14, 2017 / Our Readers

Climate Changed: 7 Artists Respond

Climate Changed: 7 Artists Respond Climate Changed: 7 Artists Respond

Everyday, more evidence of global environmental catastrophe, while our leaders increase the problem.

Dec 13, 2017 / OppArt / Peter Kuper, Robin Légère Henderson, and Horacio Fidel Cardo

Clinton and Sanders

Democrats Have a Chance to Revive the Party. Will They Seize It? Democrats Have a Chance to Revive the Party. Will They Seize It?

Let’s hope the Unity Reform Commission’s ideas are codified.

Dec 12, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch Have Set Our Future on Fire

Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch Have Set Our Future on Fire Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch Have Set Our Future on Fire

The fires and storms ravaging the planet are only going to get worse, especially if we don’t end the power of climate deniers.

Dec 11, 2017 / Mark Hertsgaard

Uintah Basin

This Is How the Trump Administration Gives Big Oil the Keys to Public Lands This Is How the Trump Administration Gives Big Oil the Keys to Public Lands

The Bureau of Land Management is rapidly opening previously off-limits areas to oil and gas drilling.

Dec 8, 2017 / Adam Federman

US-Mexico border

The United States Is Polluting the World and Locking Refugees Out The United States Is Polluting the World and Locking Refugees Out

Border walls are being erected left and right as natural disasters become more frequent, leaving victims with nowhere to go.

Dec 7, 2017 / Todd Miller

Pittsburgh reservoir

Pittsburgh’s Water System Is Why We Shouldn’t Run America Like a Business Pittsburgh’s Water System Is Why We Shouldn’t Run America Like a Business

For Pittsburgh, help from the private sector came at the cost of public health.

Nov 30, 2017 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

A Gallop in the Wrong Direction

A Gallop in the Wrong Direction A Gallop in the Wrong Direction

The Trump administration continues to push coal and defund alternative energy.

Nov 28, 2017 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine

A former Time editor condemns the billionaires’ bid to buy a stalwart advocate of climate action.

Nov 22, 2017 / Charles Alexander

Guanabara Rio Pollution

Pollution Kills an Estimated 9 Million People Every Year Pollution Kills an Estimated 9 Million People Every Year

And the world’s poorest people bear the brunt.

Nov 21, 2017 / Michelle Chen

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