Green Power Green Power
The Green Party fell from power in recent German elections, but Greens continue to be the party to watch, a progressive influence on the world's third-largest economy.
Jan 11, 2006 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Dances With Ghosts Dances With Ghosts
As the House of Representatives voted to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich decried the back-door methods and contemplated t...
Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich
Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him
As part of a nationwide festival of tributes to Pete Seeger in 2005, Studs Terkel offered this essay on the life and times of an American balladeer.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Studs Terkel
Beyond Boycotts Beyond Boycotts
Absent George W. Bush's undergoing a conversion like St. Paul's on the road to Damascus, there probably won't be much good environmental news out of Washington in Bush's second t...
Feb 17, 2005 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
A Challenge to Enviros A Challenge to Enviros
America's environmental movement has failed and should die as soon as possible so something better can take its place.
Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard
Boiling Point Boiling Point
Nature doesn't compromise on global climate change; activists must not either.
Jul 29, 2004 / Feature / Ross Gelbspan
Sierra Club Votes for its Future Sierra Club Votes for its Future
One of the nation's most important environmental organizations is in the fight of its life.
Saving the Environment Saving the Environment
This article is adapted from Carl Pope and Paul Rauber's forthcoming Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (...
Feb 19, 2004 / Feature / Paul Rauber and Carl Pope
Bush’s Environmental Record Bush’s Environmental Record
3/13/01 Abandons pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. 3/28/01 Rejects Kyoto Protocol.
Jan 16, 2003 / Feature / The Nation
Framed by the FBI Framed by the FBI
The $4.4 million damages award in June against FBI agents and Oakland police for violating the constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrong...
Jun 20, 2002 / Editorial / James X. Dempsey