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Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, at the COP27 summit.

Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending.

Nov 25, 2022 / Tina Gerhardt

Caldor Fire

Climate Change Should Have Dominated the Midterms. It Didn’t. Climate Change Should Have Dominated the Midterms. It Didn’t.

When you think about how an ever more overheated planet is going to affect our children and grandchildren, shouldn’t global warming have been right at the top of any list?

Nov 25, 2022 / Tom Engelhardt

A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance

A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance A Turning Point in the Search for Victims of Forced Disappearance

Women from Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighborhood have fought for 20 years to excavate a mass grave site. Now, the search has finally begun.

Nov 25, 2022 / Photo Essay / Hanna Wallis

President Roosevelt about to carve a turkey

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations

The 32nd president regularly decried “greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches.”

Nov 24, 2022 / John Nichols

Youth protesters at COP27

In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts

At the UN climate negotiations, delegates celebrated the decision to create a mechanism by which developed countries will compensate developing countries for the havoc wreaked upon...

Nov 23, 2022 / Tina Gerhardt

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets supporters

Lula’s Victory in Brazil and the Second Pink Wave Lula’s Victory in Brazil and the Second Pink Wave

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Doug Bell and Jeremy Adelman survey the prospects for the left in Latin America.

Nov 23, 2022 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile is test-launched

US Arms Dealing Is Out of Control US Arms Dealing Is Out of Control

What will it take to rein in Washington’s arms-sales addiction?

Nov 23, 2022 / William D. Hartung

Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1587 on strike.

Labor’s Winning Weapon Labor’s Winning Weapon

Two Canadian unions show why the supermajority strike is the key to worker power.

Nov 22, 2022 / Jane McAlevey

Cambridge Fossil Free Research Week of Action

Students Tell Their Universities: Keep Fossil Fuel Companies Out of Climate Research Students Tell Their Universities: Keep Fossil Fuel Companies Out of Climate Research

Amid COP27, members of the Fossil Free Research movement took action around the world, protesting the influence of Big Oil on crucial climate change studies.

Nov 22, 2022 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Palestinian protesters in Gaza City

Why My Organization Has Chosen to Defy Israeli Military Orders Why My Organization Has Chosen to Defy Israeli Military Orders

Al-Haq was among seven civil society groups raided by Israel and ordered closed in August, but we do not believe in following illegal orders—and so we will remain open.

Nov 21, 2022 / Shawan Jabarin

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