Democrats Must Expose Trump’s Betrayal of Working People

Forget the scandals and the tweets. What really matters is the looting.

Robert L. Borosage

Facing the Climate Crisis: A Conversation With David Wallace-Wells

The New York magazine writer confirms our worst fears about climate change–but insists there’s still hope.

Natasha Ishak

Parenting in a World Hurtling Toward Catastrophe

How do you raise children under the ever-present threat of climate change?

Frida Berrigan

The Toxic Consequences of America’s Plastics Boom

Thanks to fracking, petrochemicals giants are poised to make the plastic pollution crisis much, much worse.

Zoë Carpenter

Confronting Puerto Rico’s Coal-Ash Crisis

A mountain of toxic coal ash is sickening the territory’s residents.

Michelle Chen

How AMLO Is Taking on Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Gasoline Thieves

For years, the country’s war on illicit activity has only encouraged more violence. Its new president has a plan to change that.

Kurt Hackbarth and Colin Mooers

Letters From the March 25, 2019, Issue

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Bill McKibben: From Coal and Gas to Wind and Sun

Plus Maia Szalavitz on the opioid epidemic and Sean Wilentz on impeachment.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That

They demand that the university cancel its holdings in the Puerto Rican debt and divest from the fossil-fuel industry.

Adriana Colón-Adorno and Alejandro Comas-Short

Place Publique: The ‘Orphans’ of the French Left

A new direct democracy movement hopes to reconstitute France’s left parties around a European Green New Deal—but voters are still skeptical.

Colin Kinniburgh