The United States is taking an increasingly confrontational stance toward China and Russia rather than working with them to address the climate crisis.
U.S. Focus on Great Power Competition Deters Climate Progress
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The Climate Legacy of the British Empire
As the global media obsessed over the royal succession, one-third of Pakistan, a former British colony, was underwater.
The Urgent Climate Case for Defunding the Pentagon
U.S. taxpayers will spend more on the military — the largest institutional polluter on the planet — in one year than on renewable energy over 10 years.
Extreme Events Are the New Normal, and Not Just in the Weather
From the war in Ukraine to the rise of far-right autocrats worldwide, extremism has become a part of everyday life.
Turning People into Corporations?!
The market is not the go-to solution to the major problems of our age.
China Will Decide the Outcome of Russia versus the West
Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?
Latin America’s New New Left
The recent election in Colombia has produced new hope for the country–and for the whole region.
‘Open Your Hearts’: The Movements Taking Climate Action Where Leaders and Media Won’t
The world’s most existential crisis has all but fallen off Washington’s agenda. But campaigners are finding success in more immediate targets.
No Victory Day
Dealing with stalemates between Russia and Ukraine, environmentalists and climate change, and COVID and humanity.
India and Pakistan Are Baking, and Every Powerful Institution Is to Blame
Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful.