Environmental Issues

donald-trump-bears-ears-utah

These Utah Activists Are Determined to Stop Trump From Stealing Our Public Lands These Utah Activists Are Determined to Stop Trump From Stealing Our Public Lands

A year after Trump shrunk Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante, Native Americans, green groups, and cities are fighting back.

Dec 4, 2018 / Cities Rising / Jimmy Tobias

Sunrise activists

Want the Youth Vote in 2020? Champion the Green New Deal Now. Want the Youth Vote in 2020? Champion the Green New Deal Now.

This is just the beginning—a generation of climate voters is ready to engage with every part of the democratic process to confront this crisis.

Dec 3, 2018 / StudentNation / Jesse Meisenhelter

LIVE: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall

LIVE: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall LIVE: Solving Our Climate Crisis, a National Town Hall

Tune in at 7 pm today for a town-hall event featuring Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, Shailene Woodley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and more!

Dec 3, 2018 / Video / The Nation

Jonathan Franzen’s Birdbrain Climate Pessimism

Jonathan Franzen’s Birdbrain Climate Pessimism Jonathan Franzen’s Birdbrain Climate Pessimism

In his latest collection of nonfiction, The End of the End of the Earth, Franzen puts forth a baffling, avian-centric manifesto on the climate crisis. 

Dec 3, 2018 / Alex Shephard

Michelle Obama 2016 DNC speech

Where Are the Politics in Michelle Obama’s New Memoir? Where Are the Politics in Michelle Obama’s New Memoir?

Amy Wilentz on Becoming, Kai Wright on midterm victories, and Tom Athanasiou on climate change.

Nov 29, 2018 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

US Climate

Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism

Only by creating an intersectional movement for change at home and abroad can we fight like hell for the solutions we all know are necessary.

Nov 27, 2018 / Kate Kizer and Stephen Miles

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

There’s No Global Warming, Because It’s Cold Outside There’s No Global Warming, Because It’s Cold Outside

...and other mysteries solved by President-Detective Trump.

Nov 27, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion

America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion

Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.

Nov 21, 2018 / Editorial / William D. Hartung

sunrise-movement-green-new-deal

Can the Blue Wave Deliver a Green New Deal? Can the Blue Wave Deliver a Green New Deal?

The base is demanding a bold plan from the newly empowered Democrats—and the planet is crying out for it.

Nov 20, 2018 / Christopher D. Cook

northern-california-wildfire

As Toxic Smoke Blankets California, Who Has the Ability to Escape? As Toxic Smoke Blankets California, Who Has the Ability to Escape?

While the wealthy can flee toward cleaner air, the poorest have no choice but to stay put.

Nov 17, 2018 / Gabriel Thompson

x