This Town Is Sick of Drinking Polluted Water This Town Is Sick of Drinking Polluted Water
In one of Alabama’s poorest and most segregated regions, activists are demanding their right to clean water.
Aug 19, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Running on Empty Running on Empty
Was the failure to solve the US energy crisis of the 1970s a product of bad government policy, or of voters demanding that their government do the impossible?
Aug 4, 2016 / Jefferson Decker
Young People on the Streets of Cleveland and Philadelphia Young People on the Streets of Cleveland and Philadelphia
For many young people who took their first step into activism this primary campaign, mobilizing in opposition to Trump at the RNC is both a moral obligation and a chance to test th...
Jul 18, 2016 / StudentNation / Tania Unzueta, BLM Philly, Rossmery Zayas, and Maximilian Cotterill
Bad News: We’re Actually Using More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Bad News: We’re Actually Using More Fossil Fuels Than Ever
Renewable forms of energy are growing far faster than anyone expected. But so is the use of oil, coal, and natural gas.
Jul 14, 2016 / Michael T. Klare
It’s Time to Get Serious About Climate Change. Seriously. It’s Time to Get Serious About Climate Change. Seriously.
Our dysfunctional political system is now a threat to the existence of all mankind.
Jun 13, 2016 / Noam Chomsky
Only 2 Presidential Candidates Have a Plan for Coal Country Only 2 Presidential Candidates Have a Plan for Coal Country
And neither is Donald Trump.
May 10, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Just Because Big Coal Is Collapsing Doesn’t Mean Appalachia Has to Follow Just Because Big Coal Is Collapsing Doesn’t Mean Appalachia Has to Follow
Is an environmentally sustainable economic transition possible?
May 4, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Berta Cáceres’s Killers Are Getting Good at the PR Game Berta Cáceres’s Killers Are Getting Good at the PR Game
State terrorists in Honduras have learned that to be effective, they can’t just kill and torture. They also have to be able to tell good stories.
May 3, 2016 / Greg Grandin
Mr. Sanders Goes to the Vatican Mr. Sanders Goes to the Vatican
Bernie may be Jewish, but he seems to have found an echo of his politics in the Catholic Church’s call for social justice—especially under Pope Francis.
Apr 14, 2016 / Edouard Tétreau
A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World
But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.
Apr 14, 2016 / Feature / James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III