To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Green Stimulus Can Tackle Both Climate, Covid Crises
BY DANIEL ALDANA COHEN AND DANIEL KAMMEN
The COVID-19 epidemic is ravaging our tattered healthcare system and shredding our economy. In the past month, over...
COVID-19 Lessons For Journalists Covering The Climate Crisis
BY MARK HERTSGAARD AND KYLE POPE
This story was originally co-published by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation as part of Covering Climate Now, a...
Australia, Your Country Is Burning – Dangerous Climate Change Is Here With You Now
Editor’s Note: Climate scientist Michael Mann wrote this essay recently while in Australia’s Blue Mountains. It is printed here as part of The Oklahoma...
Has Climate Coverage Finally Turned A Corner?
BY MARK HERTSGAARD AND KYLE POPE
Some good news, for a change, about climate change: When hundreds of newsrooms focus their attention on the climate...
Trump’s Need To Destroy Meets The Environment
BY FROMA HARROP
One word best describes Donald Trump's environmental policy: sick. The president has an obsessive urge to ravage nature just for the heck...
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Observercast 41: Kojo’s American Dream
The combatants for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District seat could not be more different. First-term Republican Rep. Kevin Hern is a McDonald’s franchisee who considers...
Vote For Yourself, Not For The Fat Cats
It bears remembering as you head to the polls this year that Republican policies benefit only the richest among us.
After orchestrating a tax cut...
The Middle Way
Who benefits if citizens can’t access preventive medical care?
How many homeless would find a way off the streets if mental healthcare were available to...