Climate

Trump’s EPA Nominee Draws Friends and Foes to his Confirmation Hearing

In These Times talks to the coal miners sent by Murray Energy to support Scott Pruitt, and the climate organizers who showed up to oppose him.

Kate Aronoff

Community Rights: Because Climate Conferences Won’t Stop Climate Change

Thomas Linzey

Progressives Are the New Silent Majority

Most Americans actually prefer progressive policies—so how did we get here?

Theo Anderson

Either Rex Tillerson Lied Under Oath, Or He Doesn’t Understand How Fossil Fuel Subsidies Work

At Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Trump's secretary of state pick denied that Exxon Mobil receives subsidies. It does.

Kate Aronoff

Slavoj Zizek: Lessons From the “Airpocalypse”

On China's smog problem and the ecological crisis.

Slavoj Žižek

To Defeat Trump, We Must Make Ourselves Ungovernable

A grassroots organizer on noncompliance with Trump and how to build an eco-socialist alternative from the ground up.

Sarah Lazare, AlterNet

Rex Tillerson Could Be America’s Most Dangerous Secretary of State

The former Exxon Mobil CEO spent his entire adult life working for a company that has left a trail of carnage in its ruthless pursuit of oil.

Antonia Juhasz