Politics

“For too long, our federal government has looked the other way while our nation’s largest banks bankroll the dirtiest fossil fuel projects.”

How Americans remember (and forget) their wars.

Donald Trump’s three appointments to the court—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—cemented in place a rightward shift in its center of gravity that had begun decades earlier.

The MAGA agenda would make nearly every aspect of your life more expensive, while making the richest Americans even richer.

As the displacement of 300,000 civilians over Turkey’s assault on Kurdish-controlled areas continues in northern Syria, the House of Representatives voted Wednesday...

Trump has taken shame to a new low, a depth only achievable by someone with zero sense of shame and thus no behavior brakes.

America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections – the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 – set things right.

Since we aren’t going to vote for Trump, and since not voting is pointless if we want a better government, then what?

"Nothing compares to what Donald Trump is doing."

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.