Environmental Activism

Police Attacked Standing Rock Activists For Hours. Why Are They Calling It A Riot?

Police Attacked Standing Rock Activists For Hours. Why Are They Calling It A Riot? Police Attacked Standing Rock Activists For Hours. Why Are They Calling It A Riot?

Misleading narratives obscure the reality of the stand at Standing Rock.

Nov 25, 2016 / Evelyn Nieves

Standing Rock Water Defender

This Is What Life Inside the Standing Rock Camp Looks Like Right Now This Is What Life Inside the Standing Rock Camp Looks Like Right Now

A photo essay from Standing Rock, where indigenous activists pray and prepare for winter, even as police brutality mounts.

Nov 23, 2016 / Photo Essay / Jake Ratner

Congressional Progessive Caucus

Taking It to the States Taking It to the States

State and local government is where the next generation of progressive voices will emerge.

Nov 22, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Colstrip coal plant

Meet the Anti-Science Extremist Who Could Transform the EPA Meet the Anti-Science Extremist Who Could Transform the EPA

Myron Ebell has a long history of working to undermine environmental protections.

Nov 18, 2016 / David Helvarg

Rutgers University protest

Help Fight the Good Fight in Trump’s America—And Tell Us How You’re Getting Involved Help Fight the Good Fight in Trump’s America—And Tell Us How You’re Getting Involved

We’re looking to direct our readers to good community-based, local organizations where people can get their hands dirty organizing or volunteering.

Nov 17, 2016 / no-paywall / Ali Gharib

Bernie Congress

Bernie Sanders Comes Out Fighting Against Trump and Trumpism Bernie Sanders Comes Out Fighting Against Trump and Trumpism

‘We are not going silently into the night,’ says the senator. ‘The stakes are too high.’

Nov 17, 2016 / John Nichols

How We Can Fight Trump

How We Can Fight Trump How We Can Fight Trump

Progressives must lead the Democratic Party and develop its economic populism.

Nov 15, 2016 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

Dakota Pipeline police

How You Can Stand With Standing Rock How You Can Stand With Standing Rock

Today’s #NoDAPL action targets the Army Corps of Engineers. Watch this video—then call them.

Nov 15, 2016 / Take Action / Julia Mead

Climate March

Trump’s Denial of Catastrophic Climate Change Is a Clear Danger Trump’s Denial of Catastrophic Climate Change Is a Clear Danger

Trump is about to find out that millions of concerned citizens here and abroad will use every nonviolent means possible to stop him from accelerating the worst crisis humans have e...

Nov 15, 2016 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Standing Rock Protesters

This Government Agency Has the Power to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Will It? This Government Agency Has the Power to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Will It?

It is time for the Army Corps of Engineers to make amends for its past treatment of the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes by stopping the pipeline.

Nov 14, 2016 / Jimmy Tobias

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