The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming The Most Ambitious Emissions Pledges on the Table in Paris Would Still Result in Catastrophic Warming
Global temperatures would still rise to 2.7 to 3.5 C above the pre-industrial level.
Nov 30, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
Making the Paris Climate Talks Count Making the Paris Climate Talks Count
At the bottom of all the jargon that will be thrown about this week’s climate conference are human lives.
Nov 29, 2015 / Naomi Klein
Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue
Sanders, Denmark, and Debs… tourists at the end of life… all that jive… food for the mind… one side of the story…
Nov 25, 2015 / Our Readers
‘Bringing History to Bear’ ‘Bringing History to Bear’
Celebrating 150 years of dialogue and dissent.
Nov 19, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists A Lesson for Paris Climate Talks: Follow the Activists
At home and abroad, the grassroots wing of the climate movement is disrupting politics as usual. We should pay attention.
Nov 19, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard
This Conservation Program Is the Most Successful in US History. Why Are Republicans Destroying It? This Conservation Program Is the Most Successful in US History. Why Are Republicans Destroying It?
The Land and Water Conservation Fund is just the first of several vaunted nature and wildlife programs the GOP wants to kill.
Nov 18, 2015 / Jimmy Tobias
WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice WANTED: Political Power for Climate Justice
Movement leaders identify their goals as political, but they don’t see the movement as having the political power to achieve those goals.
Nov 16, 2015 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
‘Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler’ AKA #StayWoke ‘Ne Vous Laissez Pas Manipuler’ AKA #StayWoke
To “stay woke” in the aftermath of the Paris attacks is an act of conscious resistance against an ugly tide.
Nov 15, 2015 / Dave Zirin
New York’s Attorney General Just Won a Settlement With a Coal Giant for Climate Deception. Is Exxon Next? New York’s Attorney General Just Won a Settlement With a Coal Giant for Climate Deception. Is Exxon Next?
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a subpoena for nearly four decades’ worth of documents from ExxonMobil.
Nov 10, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Splinterlands: The View From 2050 Splinterlands: The View From 2050
A dystopian fictional tour of the world that awaits us.
Nov 10, 2015 / John Feffer