Once the water recedes, the excuses must recede as well. After the devastation and death wrought by Hurricane Florence, American print, broadcast and cable media outlets have a journalistic obligation to expand its coverage of the existential crisis of human-caused climate change. No longer can we tolerate having extensive coverage of extreme weather without that […]
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Progressives Must Politicize Their Purchasing Power
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to run down to the nearest Foot Locker to buy the newest pair of Jordans—and I haven’t even worn a pair of sneakers since I was a teenager. I also can’t wait to log on to Fandango.com and order my tickets a month in advance. I […]
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Sour Home Alabama: Roy Moore Remains the Odds-on Favorite to Be the State’s Next Senator
It doesn’t matter how many women come forward. It doesn’t matter how many Republicans say he should pull out of the race. It doesn’t matter how horrified the country as a whole is over the allegations. Roy Moore will not drop out of the special US Senate election scheduled to take place on December 12 […]
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The Men Who Knew Too Much: Exxon’s Climate Cruelty
What they did was nothing short of sick, nothing short of twisted, nothing short of unforgivable. No wonder one of their executives couldn’t wait to serve the Trump agenda. As David Roberts observes, ExxonMobil’s behavior has been every bit as reckless, selfish and vile as the behavior of the 45th President: The world’s largest oil […]
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Pay Any Price: Jon Ossoff and the Georgia Resistance
Imagine the horror that will be felt by the right if it happens. They assume it can’t happen. They assume Jon Ossoff, the Georgia Democrat surging in the special election to fill the Sixth Congressional District seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, will come up short, and a reliable Republican hack […]
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The Day the Earth Stood Ill
Ask yourself: how many Trump voters will be watching the National Geographic Channel tonight? As much as we’d like to believe that political polarization isn’t as bad as it really is, let’s face it, tonight’s premiere of the second season of Years of Living Dangerously and the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary Before the Flood is a […]
