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Green New Deal
June 26, 2019
Amy Westervelt
Jay Inslee Would Like Your Attention, Please
Washington's governor must use the first debate to emerge from obscurity—and prove that his climate plan is better than the Green New Deal.
June 20, 2019
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Green New Deal: A Capitalist Plot (Part 1)
To save the planet, be more like Ike.
June 12, 2019
Conor Lynch
The Left’s Failure to Envision a World Without Capitalism
Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism underscored the limits of a growing movement's imagination.
June 11, 2019
Emily Atkin
Climate Change Is the Symptom. Consumer Culture Is the Disease.
A new report makes clear where much of the blame lies for our warming planet.
May 31, 2019
Samuel Miller McDonald
The Green New Deal Can’t Be Anything Like the New Deal
Climate change demands a much more ambitious plan than the Great Depression did. It even requires reversing some of FDR's successes.
May 29, 2019
Kim Phillips-Fein
Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right
May 10, 2019
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Jake Bittle
Red Herrings
The conservative media’s delirious efforts to conjure up a socialist nightmare
May 3, 2019
Dave Levitan
The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing
Republicans keep saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plan is too expensive. But their own plan—to ignore the climate crisis—is even more so.
April 30, 2019
Emily Atkin
Beto O’Rourke Won’t Demonize the Fossil Fuel Industry
The Democratic candidate unveiled an aggressive plan to fight climate change, but how does it stack up against the Green New Deal?
April 18, 2019
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Jason Frederick Lambacher
Selling the Green New Deal With Optimism, Not Fear
If citizens are encouraged to help shape climate justice, they will be far more likely to join the project.
April 5, 2019
Emily Atkin
The Green New Deal Fan on Fox News Wasn’t a Random Diner. He’s a Climate Activist.
Meet the young man who ruined a "Fox and Friends" reporter's segment.
April 4, 2019
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Jacob Bacharach
MSNBC’s Wild Ride
Thanks to Trump and the Russia investigation, the liberal network is booming. But is it selling its viewers a conspiratorial fantasy?
March 28, 2019
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Win McCormack
How Green Was My Virtue
Can civic republicanism help save the planet?
March 18, 2019
Matt Ford
Would the Green New Deal Survive the Supreme Court?
Chief Justice John Roberts may have the final say on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ambitious plan to fight global warming.
March 14, 2019
Emily Atkin
Why Animal Rights Is the Next Frontier for the Left
As the left hardens its commitment to fighting climate change, social injustice, and rampant capitalism, the question of what to do about animals will become inescapable.
March 13, 2019
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Benjamin Kunkel
Can American Foreign Policy Be Greened?
Why we need a Marshall Plan to fight climate change
March 4, 2019
Emily Atkin
The Potency of Republicans’ Hamburger Lie
The GOP's latest attack against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is dishonest. But history shows why it might work.
February 28, 2019
Emily Atkin
What Nancy Pelosi Gets Right About the Green New Deal
The House speaker has some wise advice for climate activists.
February 22, 2019
Emily Atkin
The Democrats Stole the Green Party’s Best Idea
The Green New Deal used to be the eco-socialist party's signature proposal. Now the Greens, without Jill Stein, are trying to find their voice.
February 13, 2019
Emily Atkin
If Not the Green New Deal, Then What?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal has countless critics. We asked two of them to share their good-faith alternatives for reversing climate change.
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