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Paid articleDoing What We Can
LUEDERS, BILL
EDITOR’S NOTE DOING WHAT WE CAN On her latest album, I’ll Meet You Here, folk singer Dar Williams has a song about climate change. It’s addressed in part to a polar bear standing on melting...
Paid articleGlobal Crisis Demands Local Responses
Rogers-Wright, Anthony Karefa
COMMENT by ANTHONY KAREFA ROGERS-WRIGHT GLOBAL CRISIS DEMANDS LOCAL RESPONSES Just six days after being sworn into office in January 2021, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14008. The...
Paid articleNever a Just War
Progressive, The
FURTHER COMMENT by THE PROGRESSIVE NEVER A JUST WAR Much of the world has united in opposition to the death and destruction that Russian...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Censorship for Fun and Profit A proposed Oklahoma state law would let parents seek “a minimum of $10,000 per...
Paid articleLetters/Blast from The Past
LETTERS Elder Evictions Bill Lueders: Your article “I Want to Go Home” (February/March issue) is a per­sonally powerful piece of investigative journalism. Heartbreaking, as you noted. Your mom...
Paid articleMy Mother’s Evictionâ€"An Update
LUEDERS, BILL
My Mother’s Eviction—An Update Her former senior care facility was found in violation and ordered to pay a .ne, but it is appealing the ruling. Bill Lueders is editor of The Progressive....
Paid articleUnited Nations, United Opposition
Langelle, Orin
ON THE LINE by ORIN LANGELLE UNITED NATIONS, UNITED OPPOSITION We know we are in a climate catastrophe. The response Yet the U.N. climate conferences are a proper forum for one coming from the...
Paid articleBiden in the Breach
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF BIDEN IN THE BREACH S itting in front of a crackling fire in the White House at the end of February, President Joe Biden explained to historian Heather Cox...
Paid article‘Your Marriage or Your Life’
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN ‘YOUR MARRIAGE OR YOUR LIFE’ M y sister, Cris, divorced her husband, Dave, in 2008. But their relation­ ship changed only on paper. They continued to live...
Paid articleWhat Teachers Can Teach Us About Work
Jaffe, Sarah
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE WHAT TEACHERS CAN TEACH US ABOUT WORK A ccording to Ma-Riah Rob­erson Moody, a big part of the reason that Minne­apolis and St. Paul teachers and...
Paid articleClimate Change, By the Numbers
The number of acres of land that burned in the United States during 2021, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The number of “major recorded disaster events” between 2000 and...
Paid articleQ: What Should Be Done to Address Climate Change?
Gee, Chris Hill, Tina Gerhardt, Marion
ONE QUESTION CHRIS HILL Senior director of the Sierra Club’s “Our Wild America” Campaign We must protect our natural spaces. From wilderness to local parks, preserving more green space and...
Paid articleFinding Higher Ground
Tempus, Alexandra
A road trip through the unlikely cradle of America’s FINDING HIGHER Great Climate Migration. GROUND BY ALEXANDRA TEMPUS A long the main drag in Rock Springs, Wisconsin, is a...
Paid articleSaving the Driftless Region from Itself
Hundt, Tim
Saving the Driftless Region Tim Hundt is a journalist working in newspaper, radio, and multimedia in the Driftless Region. He is currently on the staff of U.S. Representative Ron Kind, Democrat...
Paid articleWhen Boomers Come Together
Mckibben, Bill
When Boomers Come Together Our new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation with the most political and economic in.uence to .ght for a working climate and a working democracy....
Paid articleConservation Now
Ness, Erik
J ust days after his Inauguration in January 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order that set an ambitious target to protect 30 percent of the nation’s public lands and waters by...
Paid articleFarmers on the Frontlines
Eisen, Marc
FARMERS ON THE FRONTLINES A changing climate creates new challenges—and opportunities to make a difference. BY MARC EISEN W hen you ask Harriet Behar if farmers can lead the fight against...
Paid articleCan the Ocean Save the Planet?
HELVARG, DAVID
Can the Ocean Save the Planet? BY DAVID HELVARG M arine Technicians Margot Buchbinder and Luis Hernandez unlock a chain-link gate at Point Molate, a natural headland on San Francisco Bay, and...
Paid articleIndigenous Peoples Lead the Way
Goldtooth, Tom B.K.
Indigenous Peoples Lead the Way To solve the climate crisis, we must reject schemes that fail to address its underlying causes. Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the executive director of the...
Paid articlePutting the Heat on Big Oil
Cohen, Ilana
Putting the Heat on Big Oil Student divestment campaigns have made real gains in the .ght to undermine the fossil fuel industry. Ilana Cohen, originally from Brooklyn, New York, is a fossil...
Paid articleThe Right Pushes Back
Banks, Jasmine
The Right Pushes Back Conservative lobbyists are seeking to protect fossil fuel companies from divestment campaigns. BY JASMINE BANKS T he oil billionaires are sweating. And it’s college...
Paid articleCreating the Future We Deserve
Barrett, Vic
Creating the Future We Deserve My generation has set out to solve the climate crisis because we know things can’t go on as they are. Vic Barrett is a Honduran American climate activist and...
Paid articleTaking It to the States
Johnson, Sharon
Taking It to the States Governors are at the forefront of the battle to address climate change. BY SHARON JOHNSON T he year 2021 was a banner year for states deter­mined to take action on...
Paid articleWhen the Floods Came
Flores, Stephanie
Stephanie Flores is a U.S. Navy veteran and communications director for Common Defense, the nation’s largest grassroots organization of progressive veterans. Previously, she served as...
Paid articleLearning to Listen
Haynes, Douglas
Learning to Listen How a university project to document Milwaukee neighborhood stories has created a ‘network of hope.’ Douglas Haynes is a professor of English at the University of...
Paid articleHope in a Time of Darkness
NICHOLS, JOHN
INTERVIEW Hope in a Time of Darkness An interview with author Rebecca Solnit. BY JOHN NICHOLS R ebecca Solnit distinguishes between optimism and hope. John Nichols, a contributing...
Paid articleMore Than Just ‘Carry On’
Kayyem, Juliette
BOOK EXCERPT More Than Just ‘Carry On’ Surviving the loss of normalcy requires new approaches. BY JULIETTE KAYYEM I n August 2021, the United Nations Intergovern­mental Panel on...
Paid articleBooks
Leanza, Norman Stockwell; Emilio
BOOKS Think Globally. Act Now. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL “Let’s start at the very beginning / A very good place to start,” sings Julie Andrews as she instructs the von Trapp children in the 1965...
Paid articleTeach Your Children Well
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL M y kid just turned three and, consequently, I’ve been touring pre-Ks. It can be hellish, especially when some of the tours are...
Paid articleWhy the Sports World Cares About Ukraine
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN WHY THE SPORTS WORLD CARES ABOUT UKRAINE I t’s been surprising, if not down­right shocking, to witness how rapidly the institutions that rule the sports world have...
Paid articleClimate Change, American Nature Poem
Kennedy, Christopher
POEMS by CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY Climate Change Sure, we breathe in the history of the world in the air that everyone else has breathed before us, the rain once an ocean, our blood and bodies mostly...
Paid articleProtecting the Rights of Nature
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF NATURE A s you might expect, cor­porate leaders have responded to the Rights of Nature movement—which seeks to fundamentally rethink the...
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