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Heather Souvaine HornNew Republic |
It’s a weird time for religion in the United States. Christians are on track to become a religious minority in the country within a few decades but...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the underappreciated and outsize significance of local environmental battles: small-town fights over development plans...
“Giving Tuesday”—the nonprofit answer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday—is supposed to be a reprieve from the crass commercialization of this...
With the election of Donald Trump, it’s reasonable to take a wide lens on what the consequences will be for the climate. His fossil fuel–friendly...
Climate-concerned readers and voters are in a tough spot. They don’t have the postelection coping options—escapism, despair, biding one’s time till...
Old age has become a strangely tangled subject in the United States. Even after Joe Biden delivered one of the worst debate performances in recent...
Donald Trump has named his pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency: Lee Zeldin, who was the U.S. representative for New York’s 1st...
We’re in the breathless final stretch of this election—when new poll analyses drop seemingly every five minutes , “ closing arguments ” that...
I’m not sure what I expected when I typed “low-waste Halloween candy” into a search box a few days ago. I know that trying to celebrate a holiday...
In Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, moderator Norah O’Donnell asked JD Vance about the death toll from Hurricane Helene, while referring...
Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts stands accused this week of killing his neighbor’s dog with a shovel circa...
When running for president in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, ban all new oil and gas drilling (including...
In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last week, Kamala Harris gave the biggest existential crisis of our lifetimes...
Beneath the deluge of election news, two remarkable statistics made smaller headlines this past week. First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Shortly after the Iowa caucuses—a moment that feels almost unfathomably long ago in this presidential race—Tom Philpott wrote about the peculiar...
Earlier this month, TNR’s Kate Aronoff argued that perhaps the best gift President Biden and his team could give the planet would be to step aside....
In the first two weeks of July, extreme heat killed at least 37 people across the United States, and 19 in one California county alone, according...