Sustainability

How to Save the Amazon

How to Save the Amazon How to Save the Amazon

Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.

Jun 12, 2025 / Jonathan Watts

Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats  Align With Elon Musk?

Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats Align With Elon Musk? Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats Align With Elon Musk?

No! Hell no! Never! The enemy of your enemy is still a corrupt plutocrat who wants to destroy democracy.

Jun 9, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Peter Kuper’s Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us

Peter Kuper’s Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us Peter Kuper’s Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us

Insectopolis explores the often-unseen—and rapidly disappearing—world we share.

May 29, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Thacker Pass, lithium mine, battery supply chain, Nevada

If You Think Multinational Mining Interests Want to Save the Environment, I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You If You Think Multinational Mining Interests Want to Save the Environment, I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You

A sacred site for Native Americans is on the verge of being destroyed for profit, and profit alone—just one more colonial conquest of lands in the American West.

May 22, 2025 / Joshua Frank

Hiding in plain sight: Despite the epic scale of his crypto-linked corruption, Trump is unlikely to ever face justice. Especially with so many Democrats eager to take the industry’s (real) money.

Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished

The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him.

May 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Children and women run among a cloud of dust at the village of El Gel, eight kilometres from the town of K’elafo, Ethiopia, on January 12, 2023. The last five rainy seasons since the end of 2020 have failed, triggering the worst drought in four decades in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. According to the UN, drought has plunged 12 million people into “acute food insecurity” in Ethiopia alone.

Thinking Like an Ancestor on a Burning Planet Thinking Like an Ancestor on a Burning Planet

A conversation with Olúfémi Táíwò about the struggle for racial and climate justice in the face of catastrophe.

May 5, 2025 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Silencing Us All

Fossil Fuel Companies Are Silencing Us All Fossil Fuel Companies Are Silencing Us All

The verdict of Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace has disturbing implications for freedom of speech.

Mar 31, 2025 / Betsy Apple

View through Montana ranch entrance to rangeland with a view of central Montana shows snow covered Crazy Mountains in the background. The Crazy Mountains rise to over 11,000 feet and are located north of Interstate-90 between Billings and Bozeman Montana; they can be seen for many miles along this stretch of Interstate.

Welcome to Bozangeles! Welcome to Bozangeles!

The greater Bozeman, Montana, region has become ground zero for rampant luxury development that is taking the “public” out of public lands.

Mar 27, 2025 / Erica Etelson

Despite the massive mobilization of Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns, his supporters remain a junior partner in the Democratic Party power structure.

Time for a Progressive Rethink Time for a Progressive Rethink

Anger at the Democratic Party’s inept leadership and subservience to Big Money has been rising since the election. But the left also must examine our own role in enabling Trump.

Mar 24, 2025 / Jeff Faux

The Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California on January 8, 2025.

How the Wildfires Could Reshape the Climate Movement in California How the Wildfires Could Reshape the Climate Movement in California

As the city debates how it can best address the impacts of increasingly devastating natural disasters, organizers hope to seize the moment.

Jan 28, 2025 / StudentNation / Amber X. Chen and Maggie Grether

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