The nuclear energy dilemma: Climate savior or existential threat?
Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
Using white privilege to ban guns
A gun control organization run by women of color is putting white women on the frontlines of demanding a ban on guns.
‘The time is now:’ Over 200 economists send a letter to Congress endorsing Medicare...
"We encourage Congress to move forward with implementing a public financed Medicare for All plan to achieve the equitable and affordable universal health care system that the American people need."
On our climate-challenged planet, only some deaths really matter
Wealthy victims make headlines — while the wealthy still living stall the moves that could protect us all.
The Christian Right won’t let us solve our mass shooting epidemic
The Republican party has a white Christian nationalist vision for the US, and is stopping solutions to gun violence.
For America’s wealthy, a sweet start to our 21st century
Greasing the way: three different — and massive — rounds of rich people-friendly tax cuts.
How inclusionary social movements succeed
Inclusionary social movements attempt to “widen the ‘we.’”
Exxon could have helped stop climate change 30 years ago, ‘proprietary’ docs show
Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.
Planetary boundary crossed: Ocean acidification now threatens global ecosystems and coastal economies
Scientists warn that ocean acidification passed a critical tipping point years ago, threatening marine biodiversity and putting billions in economic value at risk as world leaders gather for emergency talks in France.
America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report charges
CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.