News Avoidance and the Climate Majority News Avoidance and the Climate Majority
The next phase of Covering Climate Now’s 89 Percent Project puts faces to the numbers.
Sep 4, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics
Another autistic person was left to cook alive in a hot vehicle. Far too often, the so-called normal world treats us as disposable.
Sep 2, 2025 / Jason Jacoby Lee
Speak Up! Speak Up!
Free speech and the free press are cornerstones of democracy.
Sep 2, 2025 / OppArt / Martha Lewis
This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction
Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived.
Sep 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Fareed Salmon
Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame
In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.
Sep 1, 2025 / Peter Dreier
The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation
With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.
Aug 29, 2025 / Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano
Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters
55 years ago, young Chicano activists took to the streets to proclaim, “our fight is in the barrio, not Vietnam.” Their protest still resonates to this day.
Aug 29, 2025 / Bill Gallegos
“It’s a Warning, Set to a Dance Beat”: Jon Batiste on His New Song 20 Years After Katrina “It’s a Warning, Set to a Dance Beat”: Jon Batiste on His New Song 20 Years After Katrina
The New Orleans jazz great tells Covering Climate Now, “When you make a song, you want to inspire people, but you also want to let them know what they can do.”
Aug 28, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
Trump’s Staggering Betrayal of Trans Service Members Trump’s Staggering Betrayal of Trans Service Members
Trans people signed up to risk death for a country they well knew would likely never return the favor. And now the government is trying to make their lives hell.
Aug 27, 2025 / Kali Holloway
A Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine A Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine
Inspired by a Danish anti-Nazi list of 10 commandments, a group of artists and organizers made their own list to encourage ordinary people to resist the Trump administration.
Aug 27, 2025 / Regina Mahone