Christian Parenti | The Nation

The coming big storms facing our planet can only be tackled by strong governments.

From Kyrgyzstan to Kenya, from Libya to Yemen, Syria and even Egypt, violence and upheaval can be traced back to the price of a loaf of bread.

When extreme weather hits amid extreme poverty, escape becomes nearly impossible.

Some Greens have embraced nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels, but the economics just aren't there.

The 1979 partial meltdown prompted more regulations and greater enforcement. Then in the 1990s, a Republican Congress took aim.

The message out of Fukushima is clear: our own fleet of leaky old nuclear plants should be decommissioned now.

Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nuclear plants as well.

The US has twenty-three reactors of the same design as the Fukushima No. 1 reactor that is now in partial meltdown, and our federal regulators are captives of the nuclear industry.

After the demise of climate legislation, environment groups are going local—and confrontational.

How Obama can use the government's purchasing power to spark the clean-energy revolution.