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The next New Deal won’t work if it’s only American. Fixing our economy will require fixing international systems.

We’ll never succeed in making dirty energy too expensive. Let’s make clean energy cheap.

Everyone knows driving an SUV or leaving the lights on is bad for the earth. But when it comes to your environmental impact, what’s on your plate is just as important.

New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, is proving that cities don’t need major initiatives like congestion pricing to become more walkable and bikeable.

Dozens of progressive institutions are clamoring to put their agendas on Obama’s desk. Will the incoming president actually read them?

Obama’s savvy coalition-building broke all the rules about how to run for president. If he can take the same approach in the White House, he will be a towering success.

Against the great-man theory of the presidency

Navigating a family health emergency, one policy expert learns it’s not just doctors who make mistakes–systems can make them worse.

The mainstream gay-rights movement’s slow evolution on transgender issues.

A grass-roots movement for transgender rights is flourishing in some of America’s most conservative regions.