Obama’s Climate Legacy and the Lie of “Energy Independence”
The crude export ban was repealed in 2015, with White House support—and disastrous effects for global warming.
Green New Deal
The New Majority Behind Sex Work Decriminalization
An exclusive look at a groundbreaking policy transformation. There are lessons for the left to learn here.
Selling the Green New Deal to Texas Unions
The AFL-CIO's endorsement of Mike Siegel suggests a new way forward for environmentalists and labor.
Climate Change’s Great Lithium Problem
The crisis in Bolivia has an urgent message for environmental policy in the United States.
Trump, Blackface, and Guns
Why Virginia’s off-off-year elections bode ill for the GOP in 2020.
The Green New Deal Meets Green Republicanism
Does an empire of consumers have any hope of saving the planet?
Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living
Eco-fascism is fashionable again on the far right, thanks to a rise in global temperatures and anti-immigrant nationalism.
“What About China?” Is a Bad Response to the Climate Crisis
Unlike Washington, Beijing has at least gestured at a national plan to fight global warming.
The Blood-Dimmed Tide
Climate change is poised to alter the face of global conflict.
One for All
To avert global catastrophe, we urgently need to resurrect the ancient ideal of solidarity.
The Green New Deal: A Capitalist Plot (Part 2)
The Hamiltonian public option
The Democrats’ New Climate Plan Can’t Be Serious
A moderate alternative to the Green New Deal, "100 by '50" proposes to wait until the last possible moment to halt global warming.
Jay Inslee Would Like Your Attention, Please
Washington's governor must use the first debate to emerge from obscurity—and prove that his climate plan is better than the Green New Deal.
The Green New Deal: A Capitalist Plot (Part 1)
To save the planet, be more like Ike.
The Left’s Failure to Envision a World Without Capitalism
Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism underscored the limits of a growing movement's imagination.
Climate Change Is the Symptom. Consumer Culture Is the Disease.
A new report makes clear where much of the blame lies for our warming planet.
The Green New Deal Can’t Be Anything Like the New Deal
Climate change demands a much more ambitious plan than the Great Depression did. It even requires reversing some of FDR's successes.
Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right
Red Herrings
The conservative media’s delirious efforts to conjure up a socialist nightmare
The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing
Republicans keep saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plan is too expensive. But their own plan—to ignore the climate crisis—is even more so.
