Tag: 2016

Bureaucracy may constrain the worst of Trump and Brexit, but real fixes have to come from the bottom-up.

The previous warmest year on record for Earth's surface was set in 2015, which in turn broke the record set in 2014.

As 2016 comes to an end, so should the old modes of economic thinking that have produced so much economic hardship and fueled so much tumult.

Bill Moyers shares "Starting with Black," which addresses the "urgent political and moral crisis" that we currently face.

The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.

The U.S. added about 125 solar panels every minute in 2016. This is double the pace of 2015.

The year ended with the election of a president and vice president who don't embrace the scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.

Thanks to fake news and hyper partisanship, many of us can no longer distinguish facts from opinions – or lies.

Maybe someday we’ll look back and say this was the year a revolution began.

From human rights to existential threats like global warming and the loss of bio-diversity, as well kitchen table issues like income inequality and food security, progressive forces are aligning on the right side of history as they oppose both the global elite and the populist provincialism of far-right groups.