Wen Stephenson, an independent journalist and activist, is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the author of What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Climate Justice (Beacon Press, 2015). A former editor at The Atlantic and The Boston Globe, he has written about politics and culture for many publications, including Slate, The New York Times, Grist, The Boston Phoenix, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.