California’s Desert Ecosystems Will Never Recover California’s Desert Ecosystems Will Never Recover
Fire in the Anthropocene has become the environmental equivalent of nuclear war.
Sep 16, 2020 / Feature / Mike Davis
‘We Are Civilization’s Anchor. We Are the Compass for Humanity and Conscience.’ ‘We Are Civilization’s Anchor. We Are the Compass for Humanity and Conscience.’
In the midst of death, thinking about life, art, the water’s edge, and Paul Robeson.
Sep 16, 2020 / Aja Beech
Trump’s Nevada Rally Is a Mockery to Millions Trump’s Nevada Rally Is a Mockery to Millions
It flies in the face of CDC guidelines and insults all Americans who have sacrificed to slow the pandemic’s spread.
Sep 15, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Trump Supporters Need a Reality Check Trump Supporters Need a Reality Check
Climate change, racism, and mail-in voting are all conspiracies, I guess?
Sep 15, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Fires Prove the Climate Catastrophe Is a Constitutional Crisis Too Fires Prove the Climate Catastrophe Is a Constitutional Crisis Too
The Electoral College and the Senate both marginalize states that are the hardest hit by climate change.
Sep 14, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Trump’s Tromperie Plumbs New Depths Trump’s Tromperie Plumbs New Depths
With catastrophic wildfires ravaging the West, this climate-change-denying, environment-destroying president now claims to be a “great environmentalist.”
Sep 11, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
A New Justice Movement Emerges to Defend Steven Donziger A New Justice Movement Emerges to Defend Steven Donziger
The lawyer who helped win a historic Amazon cleanup deal faces six months in prison, but will still not have a jury trial.
Sep 10, 2020 / James North
Whale of a History Whale of a History
An artist’s 51-foot-long scratchboard installation examines American capitalism.
Sep 9, 2020 / OppArt / Jos Sances
States Are Doing What Big Government Won’t to Stop Climate Change States Are Doing What Big Government Won’t to Stop Climate Change
Officials hope the federal money, aimed at rebuilding economies ravaged by Covid-19, will support clean energy and carbon-cutting programs.
Sep 9, 2020 / James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Evelyn Nieves, and Sabrina Shankman
These Big City Mayors Want Green Stimulus Spending to Counter Covid-19 These Big City Mayors Want Green Stimulus Spending to Counter Covid-19
Outside the EU, most pandemic recovery spending has reinforced the carbon-intensive status quo.
Sep 9, 2020 / Andrew McCormick