Environmental Activism

Ohio State Student Protest

How Students Seized The Year How Students Seized The Year

It’s been another tumultuous, traumatic year, but young people continue to organize.

Dec 22, 2021 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall In Louisiana Leaving Devastation In Its Wake

Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad. Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad.

Future widespread suffering won’t be caused by some unforeseen disaster but by all-too-obvious, painfully predictable reasons.

Dec 20, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

Michelle Wu: Cities Must Lead for the Green New Deal

Michelle Wu: Cities Must Lead for the Green New Deal Michelle Wu: Cities Must Lead for the Green New Deal

An interview with the newly elected mayor of Boston about building on the accomplishments of progressive pioneers and shaping a new politics at the municipal level.

Dec 14, 2021 / Q&A / John Nichols

Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition

Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition

Republicans are on the move, and so are Covid and climate change—give now, before things get even worse!

Dec 9, 2021 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Port Arthur

The Export Boom That Could Transform Texas—and the World The Export Boom That Could Transform Texas—and the World

The United States’ oil and gas export boom has been a decade in the making. All along the Texas coast, communities are fighting back against the industry’s expansion.

Dec 7, 2021 / Amal Ahmed

Flooding Climate Change Rice University

How Climate Change Threatens Colleges Across the Country How Climate Change Threatens Colleges Across the Country

We asked students to tell us how rising sea levels, forest fires, and flash floods impact their local communities.

Dec 2, 2021 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Standard Oil Meeting

If You Fund the Research, You Can Shape the World If You Fund the Research, You Can Shape the World

Before the Koch brothers, Standard Oil realized the power of universities to spread its free-market ideology and prevent the growth of socialism.

Dec 1, 2021 / Amy Westervelt

Europe’s War on Woke

Europe’s War on Woke Europe’s War on Woke

Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.

Nov 29, 2021 / Feature / James McAuley

Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados

At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark

The new focus on equity in the climate movement will keep the pressure where it belongs: on the Global North.

Nov 29, 2021 / Tina Gerhardt for The Nation

Harvard Yale Divest Protest

Harvard and Yale Should Do More Than Just Divest Harvard and Yale Should Do More Than Just Divest

Two years ago, climate activists stormed the field during a Harvard-Yale football game to protest fossil fuel investments. What has changed since then?

Nov 23, 2021 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen and Josie Steuer Ingall

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