The Editors

Matt Yglesias says Bush is (still) being dishonest about his own dishonesty: It’s tiresome to need to point this out at this late date but, yes, George W. Bush and his administration misled the country while making the case for war with Iraq and, remarkably, are still trying to mislead people about it. In a […]

In an article from our last print issue, Ben Adler wonders why the idea of reducing meat consumption as a way to fight global warming is so often mocked: These days almost any proposal to reduce global warming gets taken seriously, even by conservatives. Solar panels are proposed for powering everything except submarines. Oilman T. […]

In an article from our last print issue, Mark Schmitt argues that Obama could not have done nearly as well as he did without the dramatic increase of progressive strength in states that were expected to be battlegrounds: The strong progressive majorities in these former swing states or Republican strongholds are not the accomplishment of […]

In an article from our last print issue, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger argue that liberals will not succeed in making dirty energy expensive, and should instead focus their effors on making clean energy cheap: What happened next was indeed a dress rehearsal, just not the one the environmental movement had expected. During the debate, […]

Brentin Mock talks to the Rev. Lennox Yearwood about race, the environment, and politics: You presented at this year’s Green Festivals. Did you expect many from the hip-hop generation to be there? I expected to see some people from the hip-hop generation. I don’t think it’s going to be the majority of the crowd. What’s […]

In case you missed it over the weekend, we ran a piece from our November issue by health care expert Harold Pollack, explaining how, even though he’s an expert, when it came time to manage his wife’s care, he didn’t make all the right choices: Several people made mistakes in Veronica‘s care. The worst and […]

Ann Friedman argues that we shouldn’t describe the debate over gay marriage as part of the culture wars: We’ll continue to lose until we can successfully relabel LGBT rights a civil-rights issue situated firmly within the context of other civil-rights struggles, not an issue mired in the culture-war swamp of moral controversy. (To a lesser […]

Harold Meyerson makes the case for keeping the big three out of bankruptcy: In other words, the UAW did more to build the era of postwar American prosperity, when workers’ paychecks kept up with productivity gains, than any single institution save the federal government itself. That’s one reason why it’s such a target for conservative […]

In an article from our new print issue, Dana Goldstein profiles Janet Sadik-Khan, a dark-horse candidate for secretary of transportation and New York’s very environmentally minded commissioner of transportation: On the national level, Mike Bloomberg is now recognized as a progressive reformer, and his history as a Democrat turned Republican turned Independent, all for political […]