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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Hiding Out: Why Republicans Really Don’t Want an August Recess
Republicans are scared to face the wrath of their constituents.
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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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This Friday, Call Congress to Demand Action on Climate
Now that Donald Trump’s voters have pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, what’s next for those who don’t want to see their kids drown? Climate hawks cannot give up now; surrender will ensure victory for the plutocrats and polluters. More than ever, those who want a sustainable future for their children […]
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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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Dirty Deeds: The Trumpist Threat to Clean Air and Water
Presumably, Donald Trump didn’t bring the hack he hired to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, along with him to Saudi Arabia because the fossil-fuel fetishist wouldn’t want to leave that petrostate. The New York Times, presumably trying to reduce the public’s contempt towards its decision to hire climate-change denier Bret Stephens to foul […]
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Bad Faith: The Religion of Trumpism
We don’t have a prayer of changing anybody’s mind about Donald Trump. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of this week’s revelations about the treachery of the 45th President is the reality that at bottom, only progressives are truly morally outraged. No Republican cheerleader will have an attack of conscience, ever. Those who made the ghastly […]
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Cool Down, Everybody: GOP Climate Heroes Are Still Hard to Find
Sorry, but there’s no reason to pick up the pom-poms for Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME), whose votes were admittedly crucial to stopping the latest right-wing scheme to destroy President Obama’s climate-protection efforts. Let’s not label them climate hawks just yet, OK? McCain lost his credibility on this issue […]
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Code of Silence: Will Obama Finally Call Out Trump?
Now, there’s just no excuse. It’s hard to figure out just why the 44th President of the United States won’t directly criticize his incompetent and insane successor, but Barack Obama refused to do so again a few days ago in his John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award acceptance speech (and in his remarks at […]
