Environment

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30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy? 30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy?

Or, how Ukraine learned to stop worrying and love its nuclear power plants.

Apr 25, 2016 / Dusty Christensen

Bernie Sanders leaves the Vatican

Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican Why Sanders Skipped Clooney and Visited the Vatican

Sanders’s hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican.

Apr 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

Grassroots activists have pushed the needle far beyond the Democratic establishment.

Apr 15, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Democracy Spring

Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week

The Democracy Spring protests in DC are building the power needed to break our politics free of its corporate choke-hold.

Apr 14, 2016 / John Cavanagh

Bernie Sanders New Hampshire

Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein Says Climate Justice Requires Bernie’s Boldness Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein Says Climate Justice Requires Bernie’s Boldness

Plus Andrew Bacevich on our wars in the Middle East, and Amy Goodman on 20 years of Democracy Now!

Apr 14, 2016 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

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

Fracking in action

Lead Isn’t the Only Threat to Drinking Water Lead Isn’t the Only Threat to Drinking Water

The EPA abandoned a study of fracking pollution in Wyoming. Then one of the agency’s scientists kept investigating.

Apr 13, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

I Used to Support Bernie, but Then I Changed My Mind

I Used to Support Bernie, but Then I Changed My Mind I Used to Support Bernie, but Then I Changed My Mind

I have a variety of concerns about both candidates’ campaigns. But I intend to vote for Hillary Clinton in the California primary for one fundamental reason.

Apr 12, 2016 / Tom Hayden

Bernie Sanders

Can Markets Solve Climate Change? This Democratic Socialist Thinks So. Can Markets Solve Climate Change? This Democratic Socialist Thinks So.

Here’s how.

Apr 12, 2016 / Mark Paul, Anders Fremstad, and James K. Boyce

COP21

Good News on Climate Change… and Bad News Good News on Climate Change… and Bad News

Global emissions may have peaked—but temperatures are rising at record speed, threatening a massive sea-level rise that could destroy major cities by 2100.

Apr 7, 2016 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard

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