Wen Stephenson
Contributing Writer
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April 5, 2023
What It’s Like to Be Trans and Christian in Nashville Right Now
Talking with Nashville-based transqueer Christian scholar and activist Roberto Ché Espinoza about faith, violence, and healing.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeApril 3, 2023
The Media’s Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy
Beneath the upbeat messaging, the latest UN climate report makes it clear that while the means to save the planet may still be available, the political will is nowhere in sight.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeDecember 19, 2022
Against Climate Optimism—Because “Team Normal” Won’t Save the World
Some of us refuse to go along with a mainstream climate movement that settles for genocide.
Wen Stephenson
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Environmental ActivismMarch 30, 2022
Coal Trains and Climate Protest: It’s Spring in New England
What connects anti-war demonstrations in Russia with climate activists in the US? An opposition to fossil capital.
Wen Stephenson
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Environmental ActivismOctober 25, 2021
Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood on Their New Initative, Third Act
They spoke to The Nation about their generation—and how to get their peers back in the streets.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeAugust 11, 2021
Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau
“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?”
Wen Stephenson
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Environmental ActivismJuly 6, 2021
Stop the Enbridge Ecocide!
From Minnesota to Massachusetts, the Canadian pipeline company is engaged in crimes against humanity and the earth—abetted by state power.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeMay 25, 2021
What’s Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism.
A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism.
Wen Stephenson
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EnvironmentFebruary 16, 2021
How a Climate-Justice Champion Won Office in Rural, Working-Class Maine
State Senator Chloe Maxmin, a progressive activist who unseated the GOP minority leader in November, talks about social-movement organizing.
Wen Stephenson
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Climate ChangeOctober 12, 2020
The Hardest Thing About the Green New Deal
Three new books raise the question: What does global solidarity look like at this late hour?
Wen Stephenson