5 tips on how to talk climate change this holiday season
The trick is to use patience, tolerance, an optimistic tone – and last, but not least, a keen understanding of your audience – to nudge your climate-skeptic sister or father-in-law.
Oklahoma governor seeks to set nation’s highest tax on wind
“Creating a less competitive energy environment via taxation only hurts consumers.”
Women in Congress push back against misogyny
“We have every right to do our jobs and represent our communities without fearing for our safety.”
Just out of jail, Winona LaDuke decries militarized crackdown on Enbridge Line 3 pipeline...
“It is a civil crisis when a Canadian multinational controls your police force.”
Restrictions on Syrian Refugees Driven by Fear, Xenophobia
Interview with Congressmember Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim member of Congress. “We’ve had 750,000 refugees come into this country since the year 2001. None of them – not one – has been engaged in terrorism,” Ellison says.
Black, Hispanic, and Asian donors give more to social justice causes, survey finds
Giving to racial and social justice causes is on the rise—especially among donors of color. African Americans are the most likely to give to strangers of all racial and ethnic groups.
Exclusive: Gay High School Student Delivers Valedictorian Speech He Was Barred from Giving
Evan Young, the 2015 class valedictorian of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado was prevented from giving his graduation speech because he was going to announce he is gay. But Young finally got his chance and was praised for his bravery.
How the pandemic’s unequal toll on people of color underlines US health inequities –...
From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in communities of color than in the general...
Six lessons the remorseless siege against procreative rights can teach the left
Secular democracy, as in majority rule, is just as threatened by religious fanaticism as it is by looming dictatorship.
VICTORY: Ireland bans fracking
Ireland joins France, Germany and Bulgaria in banning fracking onshore.







