Yearly Archives: 2021
Beware fashionable, doomsday pessimism, obstacles to progressive reforms
Current evidence presages more bad news for the Trumpist right before 2024. Democrats must only hold the center to replay in 2024 its 2020 triumphs.
LAPD investigates use of force incident on body cam video
The department recently released the body cam footage and confirmed that it has an ongoing investigation into the officer’s use of force due to the fact that no charges were filed against the suspect.
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their water bills—here’s how a national water aid...
Access to a safe and affordable water supply and sewer services is codified in the U.N.‘s Human Right to Water and Sanitation.
They knew industrial pollution was ruining the neighborhood’s air. If only regulators had listened.
Barbara Weckesser and her neighbors told regulators that air pollution was making them sick. The law let them ignore her.
BLM co-founder Alicia Garza: Ahmaud Arbery should still be with us; Biden must condemn...
“But what we saw was actually more of a milquetoast response, which is especially concerning in this political context of white nationalism and a rise in vigilantism.”
2.5 million nurses demand UN probe into ‘COVID-19 criminals’ blocking patent waiver
"Continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver is resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world."
Why the oil industry’s pivot to carbon capture and storage—while it keeps on drilling—isn’t...
The fossil fuel industry is pushing for the U.S. government to support methods to capture its climate pollution. But what are their consequences?
New study confirms Arctic Ocean has been warming decades longer than scientists thought
Published in Science Advances, scientists determined that "Atlantification," which is "the recent expansion of Atlantic waters in the Arctic Ocean," was taking place several decades before the recording.
The Georgia way: How to win elections
An oral history recounts the organizing that led to 2020’s historic presidential and senatorial victories in Georgia.
Biden drilling report blasted as ‘shocking capitulation to the needs of corporate polluters’
"The government's royalty rates and bonding requirements are far too low and lead to public money subsidizing Big Oil's profits while our federal lands and waters suffer egregious harm."