The Pope’s Powerful Message to Congress: Don’t Discard America’s Immigrants The Pope’s Powerful Message to Congress: Don’t Discard America’s Immigrants
How geopolitics often hurts the world’s poor and vulnerable was a central theme of the pope’s speech.
Sep 24, 2015 / George Zornick
How Hillary Clinton Got to ‘No’ on Keystone How Hillary Clinton Got to ‘No’ on Keystone
‘‘Just plain old organizing is often what starts to change political reality,” says Bill McKibben
Sep 23, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Can the Pope Get the US to Take Climate Change Seriously? Can the Pope Get the US to Take Climate Change Seriously?
Pope Francis says the “time is now” for major action on economic, social, and climate justice.
Sep 23, 2015 / John Nichols
As the 2016 Campaigns Heat Up, the Moment Still Belongs to the People As the 2016 Campaigns Heat Up, the Moment Still Belongs to the People
What once seemed unexpected is no longer unthinkable.
Sep 22, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Did the Fish and Wildlife Service Just Doom This Bird to Extinction? Did the Fish and Wildlife Service Just Doom This Bird to Extinction?
Big Oil was desperate to keep the sage grouse off the endangered-species list. Here’s why.
Sep 22, 2015 / Jimmy Tobias
How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology How Pope Francis Came to Embrace Not Just Climate Justice but Liberation Theology
And how that poses a radical challenge to both climate deniers and mainstream liberals.
Sep 9, 2015 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
Fossil-Fuel Executives Are Making Obscene Amounts of Money for Wrecking the Planet—and Their Own Companies Fossil-Fuel Executives Are Making Obscene Amounts of Money for Wrecking the Planet—and Their Own Companies
The kings of Big Coal are making off with millions, while their industry collapses.
Sep 2, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
As President Obama Wraps Up His Alaska Trip, Demand He End His Hypocrisy on Arctic Drilling As President Obama Wraps Up His Alaska Trip, Demand He End His Hypocrisy on Arctic Drilling
Just weeks before a trip intended to call for action on climate change, President Obama gave Royal Dutch Shell Oil permission to start drilling off the coast of Alaska.
Sep 2, 2015 / NationAction
August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast
“Faith-based disaster relief is no substitute for an effective, organized, rapid government response.”
Aug 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Three Weeks After Obama Announced His Clean-Power Plan, He Greenlit New Oil Drilling in the Arctic Three Weeks After Obama Announced His Clean-Power Plan, He Greenlit New Oil Drilling in the Arctic
What’s driving the president’s bafflingly two-faced climate policy?
Aug 26, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard