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 Episode 19: A Top 10 State In Police Violence
Will the murder of George Floyd – his very life snuffed out by a Minneapolis police officer’s knee – be the tipping point that...
A Timely Warning From The Generals
Under ordinary circumstances, open dissent from high-ranking military officials, retired and active, against the actions of civilian political leaders would signal a danger familiar...
Your Presidency Might Not Be Going Too Well If …
Some signs that your presidency may not be going too well:
– You have to hide in the White House bunker out of fear of...