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Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic. She is the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back, and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Kate is also a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, and serves in Dissent’s editorial board.

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May 1, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Federal Reserve Is Accelerating the Climate Crisis
Bailing out money-losing fossil fuel companies is not sound economic policy.
April 29, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Give Me Meat and Give Them Death
Trump’s executive order requiring industrial meatpackers to keep operating is murder.
April 28, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Don’t Let Larry Summers Block Climate Progress Again
He torpedoed clean energy plans in the Obama administration. Now he’s advising Joe Biden.
April 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
“Believe Science” Is a Bad Response to Denialism
Liberals’ glorification of expertise amid the coronavirus and climate crises reveals their own distrust of democracy.
April 22, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The World Order Is Broken. The Coronavirus Proves It.
Rich countries have pushed economic policies that set poor countries up to fail.
April 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Urgent Message of Negative Oil Prices
A transition for at-risk fossil-fuel workers has to be at the heart of the next stimulus package.
April 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
An Airline Bailout Should Have More Strings Attached Than a Harp
The industry was a hot mess before the coronavirus. Cash plus more deregulation will only make it worse.
April 8, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Does Big Oil Need Big Government to Survive?
For the first time in a while, Texas is considering curbing oil supply.
March 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Darling, Let’s Do Coronavirus in the Hamptons This Year
The rich continue their tradition of escapist virtue signaling.
March 20, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Screwed Up
Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders have been outflanked by opponents embracing big spending ideas to address the coronavirus recession.
March 18, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Green Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession
The climate case for making the government the employer of last resort
March 17, 2020
Kate Aronoff
A Moderate Proposal: Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry
We’re facing a shale crash, a likely recession, and a surefire climate crisis. One particular policy could help solve all three problems.
March 13, 2020
Kate Aronoff
A Golden Opportunity for a Green Stimulus
New polling finds support for big, earth-friendly spending—fighting both the coronavirus-fueled recession and climate change at once.
March 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Political Realignment From Hell
Trump’s coronavirus response stimulus package would bail out big oil. Biden-style Democrats will decry the cost. The planet will suffer.
March 10, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Joe Biden’s Sketchy Climate Record
His attempt to take undeserved credit for the Paris Agreement only scratches the surface of his questionable decisions as vice president.
March 4, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Bon Appétit Test Kitchen Is a Green New Deal Fantasy
We love Gourmet Makes because we hate how capitalism has distorted our relationships to food and one another.
March 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Nationalizing the Power Industry Isn’t Radical
The United States has a long history of nationalizing in times of crisis. Bernie Sanders’s publicly owned clean power proposal is actually pretty tame.
February 26, 2020
Kate Aronoff
We’re All on This Sick Planet Together
The racist, right-wing isolationism favored by the Trump administration is as bad an answer to the coronavirus as it is to the climate crisis.
February 25, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Planet Is Screwed, Says Bank That Screwed the Planet
A report from two economists at JP Morgan Chase pushes back against traditional economic wisdom on climate change.
February 24, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Beware a Bezos Bearing Gifts
A field guide to corporate climate pledges

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