Liza Featherstone

The new Republican strategy on climate change is to admit it’s happening but argue that it’s good, actually. Voters may find that optimism compelling.

Naturally, Peter Thiel is an investor in the company that came up with the idea.

Summer murders are a perennial problem that conservatives, despite their rhetoric, are uniquely ill-equipped to solve.

Contrary to the narrative you’ll read in some newspapers, climate policy polls very, very well.

People who once feared reactor meltdowns and toxic waste have come to see nuclear energy as an acceptable alternative to the greater danger of fossil fuels.

Research suggests a surprising motive for environmentalism: feeling good.

We need to ground climate discourse in the present, not the future.

A new crop of primary challengers is mobilizing voters by pointing to Hurricane Sandy, Lake Mead, and other local climate concerns.

The Environmental Voter Project wants to turn infrequent voters who care about the environment into a force that can swing elections.

Climate justice is moral. But it’s also practical.

It’s been disgustingly co-opted by the likes of ExxonMobil. But it belongs to an environmental movement that fused both radical and mainstream America.

The knee-jerk panic some conservative men feel over fossil fuels isn’t just tied to financial incentive. It’s an identity.

OkCupid users say climate denial is now their top deal-breaker.

Our failures of pandemic solidarity cost lives. Ukraine is testing our solidarity in another way.

It makes sense to be wary of corporate puff pieces. But there are genuine victories to celebrate, often at the local or international level. We need those stories as fuel for the fight.

Among the less-discussed parts of Build Back Better: It would help keep people from drowning.

On both Covid precautions and climate ethics, our lack of social consensus creates stress. But it’s also an opportunity to hone our powers of persuasion.

Panic over predators sets humans up to have exactly the wrong kind of relationship with the ailing environment.

For young people, climate politics are understandably personal.

“Gratitude” has become a vapid buzzword, but being grateful can be a revolutionary act. Just look to Lincoln and FDR.