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After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.
With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.
Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.
Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.
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Austerity is not the only way to save our overextended planet. A simpler life might be both more pleasurable and more equal.
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky.
Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.
A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.
Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.
Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.
In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.
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