Climate science deniers, right-wing think tanks, and fossil fuel shills are plotting to foil the renewable-energy revolution.
Cities & Communities
Posted inEducation in America
New York City’s Last Dictatorship
After 20 years, New York reconsiders mayoral control of its education system.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Spectacle of Policing
‘Swatting’ innocent people is the latest incarnation of the decades-long gestation of an infrastructure of fear.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Housing First Can Work—If Done Right
Solving homelessness requires strong and well-resourced case management, and an acknowledgment of where programs fall short.
Posted inPolitics
NY-03 Special Election Tests Jacobs’s ‘Long Island Strategy’
Tuesday’s primary to fill George Santos’s seat is a toss-up, despite an experienced former Democratic congressmember facing a largely unknown Republican.
Posted inPolitics
100 Years Ago Today: Savage Nativism. And ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’
On the bigotry and diversity inherent in the world’s foremost nation of immigrants
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
From Flint to East Palestine and Back
Ohio and Pennsylvania residents want the tools to study long-term health impacts from the 2023 freight train derailment. But East Palestine hasn’t seen the money.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Water Democracies
Four-hundred-year-old acequia systems of the Southwest are changing how communities cope with water scarcity.
Posted inPolitics
Pre-Preemption
Conservative states have now taken to blocking liberal cities from even thinking about legislating on behalf of their residents.
Posted inPolitics
Can Progressive New York Revive?
That depends on whether organizing and unity are a match for two incumbents in the pocket of business and one embittered ex-governor.
