Globalization

The Paris Climate Deal Will Not Save Us

The Paris Climate Deal Will Not Save Us The Paris Climate Deal Will Not Save Us

The agreement will still raise global temperatures 3 to 4 degrees Celsius.

Dec 12, 2015 / Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: Climate Change Will Destroy These Countries

Naomi Klein: Climate Change Will Destroy These Countries Naomi Klein: Climate Change Will Destroy These Countries

In Paris, vulnerable nations are being forced to accept unconscionable terms to stay in existence.

Dec 12, 2015 / Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: Sane Climate Policies Are Being Undermined by Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals

Naomi Klein: Sane Climate Policies Are Being Undermined by Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals Naomi Klein: Sane Climate Policies Are Being Undermined by Corporate-Friendly Trade Deals

Companies like Exxon and Shell are using these deals to create new markets for fossil fuels. See the problem?

Dec 9, 2015 / Naomi Klein

A couple wades through floodwaters in Jakarta, Indonesia.

How Climate Change Will Transform Work How Climate Change Will Transform Work

Workers in the Global South need more than wind turbines and high-brow organic farms—they need livelihoods that can mitigate ecological crisis.

Dec 9, 2015 / Michelle Chen

When Planting Trees Hurts the Environment

When Planting Trees Hurts the Environment When Planting Trees Hurts the Environment

In Paris this week, policy-makers are considering an ambitious new plan to cover 50 million acres of South American land with trees. That might not be a good idea.

Dec 9, 2015 / Eilís O’Neill

How Can We Accelerate the Progress of Women’s Rights Around the World?

How Can We Accelerate the Progress of Women’s Rights Around the World? How Can We Accelerate the Progress of Women’s Rights Around the World?

A new collection of essays grapples with the successes and ongoing struggles of the global feminist movement.

Dec 7, 2015 / Barbara Crossette

Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy

Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy Naomi Klein: Breaking the Back of Our Carbon Economy

What should an economy that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels actually look like?

Dec 3, 2015 / Naomi Klein

Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris

Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris

On this week’s podcast, Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and the Paris climate protests, Katha Pollitt on Europe’s refugee crisis, Eric Foner on Woodrow Wilson’s racism, and Joan ...

Dec 3, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Myanmar nationals hold up their passports outside the embassy of Myanmar in Singapore

Flattened for a Price Flattened for a Price

In her new book The Cosmopolites, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the evolution of citizenship and the rise of a new form of statelessness.

Dec 2, 2015 / Fatima Bhutto

In South Korea, a Dictator’s Daughter Cracks Down on Labor

In South Korea, a Dictator’s Daughter Cracks Down on Labor In South Korea, a Dictator’s Daughter Cracks Down on Labor

The government has banned a massive rally scheduled for this weekend, but activists are vowing to defy the order.

Dec 1, 2015 / Tim Shorrock

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