Environment

Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump

10 Questions Judge Kavanaugh Should Answer 10 Questions Judge Kavanaugh Should Answer

Trump’s latest nominee for Supreme Court Justice has long been a darling of DC conservatives, but his decisions on some of today’s biggest legal issues will affect the entire count...

Jul 11, 2018 / Gregg Levine

Elizabeth Rush, Writer and Journalist

Is It Time to Retreat From the Sea? A Q&A With Elizabeth Rush Is It Time to Retreat From the Sea? A Q&A With Elizabeth Rush

The author discusses what we can do as rising waters reshape the American coastline.

Jul 9, 2018 / Q&A / Sophie Kasakove

How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World

How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World How Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Changed the World

A year after 122 nations adopted a nuclear-weapons ban, the treaty is showing results.

Jul 6, 2018 / Ray Acheson

What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster?

What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster? What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster?

Hobbes for an age of accelerated climate change.

Jun 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Alyssa Battistoni

Black Butte Coal Mine

Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not an ‘Environmental’ Issue: Bill McKibben Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not an ‘Environmental’ Issue: Bill McKibben

Plus Andrew Bacevich on our endless wars and Robert Edelman on the World Cup.

Jun 21, 2018 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Why We Need a Wider Foreign-Policy Debate

Why We Need a Wider Foreign-Policy Debate Why We Need a Wider Foreign-Policy Debate

The establishment consensus has failed. Citizen intervention can change that.

Jun 20, 2018 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge

Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge

To face it, Washington needs to end the subsidies that enrich the hydrocarbon industry.

Jun 20, 2018 / Feature / Bill McKibben

David Ige pesticides

Hawaii Just Made a Brilliant End Run Around Scott Pruitt’s EPA Hawaii Just Made a Brilliant End Run Around Scott Pruitt’s EPA

By banning the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, the state is doing what the EPA refuses to do—protect its residents’ health.

Jun 18, 2018 / Anna Lappé

Barber-Theoharis-Poor-People's-Campaign

The Poor People’s Campaign Is Changing the Moral Narrative of Congress The Poor People’s Campaign Is Changing the Moral Narrative of Congress

Activists are getting at least some members of Congress to listen to the real stories of poverty and injustice in America.

Jun 14, 2018 / John Nichols

Bears Ears National Monument

A Third of the World’s ‘Protected’ Areas Are Under Threat A Third of the World’s ‘Protected’ Areas Are Under Threat

Six million square kilometers are under intense pressure from human activity.

Jun 12, 2018 / Michelle Chen

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