Oil execs brag about having ‘direct access’ to Trump’s pick for Interior Secretary
This culture of access has had real environmental consequences.
Zuzana Caputova, liberal environmental activist, becomes Slovakia’s first female president
"I am happy not just for the result, but mainly that it is possible not to succumb to populism, to tell the truth, to raise interest without aggressive vocabulary."
UN chief: ‘Climate change is running faster than what we are’
The world is not on track to achieve the objectives defined in the Paris Agreement.
Benghazi! Hiding a Transcript—and the Truth
The saga of the House Select Committee on Benghazi continues—Trey Gowdy, the committee's chairman, demands the release of sworn deposition from Sidney Blumenthal. But what is the committee's real purpose?
Against plutocrats, platitudes — about democracy — will always be pitiful
The Biden administration’s democracy initiative is missing the all-important inequality connection.
Chomsky: Trump radically interfered with Israel’s election to help re-elect Netanyahu
Noam Chomsky talks about how President Trump directly interfered with the Israel election by repeatedly helping Netanyahu, from moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem to recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights in defiance of international law.
Climate terrorism: The politically farsighted way to impeach Trump
In short, there are potent Constitutional grounds to impeach Trump for climate terrorism, and doing so would forcefully deter any Republican “rightist revolutionary” from pursuing similar ecocidal policies.
‘We are still in’: U.S. leaders reaffirm commitment to Paris Agreement
“U.S. leadership on climate change doesn't begin or end in Washington.”
Donald Trump Has Some Explaining to Do
Are we going to find deep ties to Russia in those long-awaited tax returns?
For Trump, regime change begins at home
A month after he won the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump gave a speech in North Carolina where he declared that “we will stop...