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Dahr Jamail | How Do the Democratic Presidential Front-Runners Stack Up on Climate Change?
The Democratic presidential primary race between front-runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is heating up. So is the planet.
Child Care’s Broken Promise: Parents Want Solutions
Families want child care that reflects what it means to be working, poor and raising children in the US.
Twelve Days That Cooked the World: Combating the Climate Counterrevolution in Paris
UN climate negotiators' failure to mandate adequate emissions reductions provides the moral justification for radical local action.
Suffering From Global Warming First
Indigenous people who live close to the land are seeing the effects of global warming sooner and more alarmingly.
Behind the Clinton Campaign: Dark Money Allies, Part 2
Many voters are in the dark about exactly who is spending big money to support Hillary Clinton.
Corporations, Not People, Have Been Made Stakeholders in the New Global Order
Susan George, author of “Shadow Sovereigns,” discusses the rise of corporate personhood on a global scale.
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Beyond ISIS: The Folly of World War IV
What if the United States does whatever it takes militarily to confront and destroy ISIS. Then what?
“Walking in Two Worlds”: A Tale of Alaska’s Tongass, the United States’ Largest Forest
We meet a Tlingit brother and sister, who are trying to heal both the forest and their native community.
A Generation of Delay: Climate Policy Is 20 Years Behind
New climate science knowledge is not making it out of academia and into public policy.
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ALEC Works to Scuttle Global Climate Agreement
New scientific reports are offering incontrovertible evidence that the destructive and costly effects of climate change have already begun to sweep the planet.