Has he called it “fake news” on Twitter yet? There isn’t a chance in hell that the Trump administration will ever officially release the latest National Climate Assessment Report showing the severe risk carbon pollution poses to the United States. Trump will surely take a page from George W. Bush, who taught Trump all that […]
Al Gore
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Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again
He should have demanded a recount. A botched strategy by Paramount Pictures effectively sabotaged the nationwide release of the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which finished in 15th place in US theatres this weekend. This was not supposed to happen–and it would not have happened if Paramount had stuck with its […]
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Green Lantern: Gore’s Return to the Spotlight Has Implications for 2018 and Beyond
Accepting the Vice Presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention 25 years ago today, then-Tennessee Senator Al Gore declared: I’ve spent much of my career working to protect the environment, not only because it is vital to the future of my State of Tennessee, our country and our earth, but because I believe there is […]
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Scott Pruitt’s War on the GOP
Pruitt is turning up the heat on every House Republican who recognizes that climate change is an urgent issue.
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The New Fall Season: Will Gore Prompt More Green Programming?
Five years ago today, in an appearance on CNN, Bill Nye observed: I appreciate that we want to show two sides of the story — there’s a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess — but the two sides aren’t equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are […]
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Will Democrats Allow the Perfect to Be the Enemy of the Good in 2020?
Do you get the sense that it won’t be enough? Do you get the sense that after all of Donald Trump’s outrages, his deceptions, his lies, his depravity, his chicanery, it still won’t be enough? Do you get the sense that three years from now, the Democratic Party will still be divided along “establishment” vs. […]
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The Other Main Obstacle to Single Payer
Last week, Nancy LeTourneau accurately observed: There’s been some chatter lately among liberals that the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee will likely run on a platform that includes a commitment to single payer health insurance. While that would be appealing to a lot of people for a whole host of reasons, it doesn’t take into consideration […]
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Andrew Lack, Way Off Track, Loves Himself Some Right-Wing Hacks
I bet you Sean Hannity’s next. This week’s announcement that NBC News President Andrew Lack has hired Fox refugee George Will as an MSNBC commentator is not outrageous or infuriating. Actually, it’s morbidly funny–because Lack’s apparent strategy is a guaranteed flop. It appears that Lack thinks he can attract Fox’s longtime viewers by flooding MSNBC […]
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A Lack of Courage: Why the Fourth Estate is Rather Intimidated by Trump
Remember when the right-wing noise machine wouldn’t stop celebrating its role in the departure of Dan Rather from CBS News? “Rathergate,” as the wingnuts called it, is still regarded as a moment of glory for the right. In a 2004 Boston Phoenix piece, Dan Kennedy explained the history behind the right’s lust for Rather’s scalp: […]
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The Camera Never Denies
Good on Mark Phillips of CBS News for his series this past week on the impact that human-caused climate change is having on our world. After years of US broadcast and cable entities downplaying and dismissing the importance of this issue, it was quite impressive to see Phillips and CBS report on the climate crisis […]
