Trump Can’t Hold Back the Tide of Climate Action
But as mourning turns to anger and resistance, it’s worth recalling that there are significant limits on what Trump can do to hold back action on climate change.
American politics
State of The Transition post-Marrakech: Unity is strength
Donald Trump’s would be climate saboteurs might have hoped that merely the mention of their intention to quit the Paris Agreement would be enough for the climate talks to fall apart at the annual climate summit in Marrakech.
The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization
Our extreme polarization is political, economic, social—but individuals feel it on a personal level. Small wonder if we seek relief in the hope that the social fracturing might be healed by one candidate or another.
When the Shouting Stops
More generally, if the Left wants to get the people who voted for Trump to vote for them instead, they’re going to have to address the issues that convinced those voters to cast their ballots the way they did.
The Day After: “Just Go For It, Only More So” Earth News: More than News of the World
"I don’t know what comes next. I just know that the people are going to continue to resist, and it’s a great moment to be alive."
Election of Trump Clarifies the Struggle for Climate Justice
Until Donald Trump’s electoral success, there was at least some reason to believe that the momentum was finally on the side of climate justice.
Trump’s Win will Slow Climate Action and Renewables
Trump’s win will slow climate action and renewables, but as the reactions at COP 22 show already, he will fail in his fossil promises
A Moment That Illuminates Our Structural Challenges
If nothing else, the election of Donald Trump illuminates many of the deep structural problems that we need to face squarely.
Donald Trump and the USA’s Growth and Indebtedness
During 2008 to 2015 the ratio of GDP growth to increase in debt sank closer to 1:1. This shows that the economic policy of the time was catastrophic. There was no capacity for increasing the wages of the middle class in the USA.
When All Bets are Off
Facts matter. Dialogue works. Tolerance heals.
The Lost Six Months In 2009 That Still Haunt Us
As President Obama started his first term in office he was provided with the kind of opportunity for real change that progressives had only been able to dream about for nearly a century.
The Coming of Trumpism, the World in 2050, and Us
Now, it seems, we must find the secret of change in focusing all of our energies, not only on fighting the old and the new, but on building the new at the same time.