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Kate Aronoff

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If the Rich Really Did Flee L.A., Rebuilding Might Be Easier

If the Rich Really Did Flee L.A., Rebuilding Might Be Easier
16.01.2025 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

L.A. Is Burning. Will Insurance Companies Take Advantage?

L.A. Is Burning. Will Insurance Companies Take Advantage?
10.01.2025 7

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

This Is What Elon Musk Really Wants From Donald Trump

Tesla is off to a bumpy start in 2024. Shares in the company fell 6 percent at the start of the year after it reported its first-ever annual...

07.01.2025 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Biden’s Lasting Legacy Is Making the World a More Dangerous Place

On Thursday, the White House put forward its new pledge under the Paris Agreement: By 2035, the United States will reduce its emissions by between...

22.12.2024 6

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

Fresh off hip replacement surgery, Nancy Pelosi, 84, secured another victory. House Democrats on Tuesday afternoon decided that 74-year-old Gerry...

18.12.2024 100

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers?

A “fiber glut” might sound like a phrase uttered by a wellness influencer extolling the virtues of ancient grains. In reality, it’s the name for an...

17.12.2024 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Elon Musk Is Why We Shouldn’t Cast CEOs as Climate Saviors

Earlier this year, Elon Musk ditched long-standing plans for developing a smaller, more budget-friendly Tesla. He opted instead, The Washington...

12.12.2024 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Even Under Biden, the U.S. Was Still Obstructing Global Climate Goals

Donald Trump’s quest to reverse the modest progress the United States has made fighting climate change will take place on two fronts: domestic and...

10.12.2024 3

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Biden and Trump Agree on One Thing: Zero Accountability

The United States is looking to shoot down a case being heard in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). No, it’s not the one launched...

06.12.2024 3

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Republicans’ War on ESG Has Reached New Heights of Stupidity

Eleven Republican state attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, are suing three of the world’s biggest asset managers....

04.12.2024 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump Could Make U.S. Cars Less Competitive

On Monday night, Donald Trump announced plans to impose sweeping tariffs on some of the United States ‘largest trading partners. Goods imported...

27.11.2024 6

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The House Just Made it Easier to Target Climate Groups

On Thursday, the House passed a bill that could hand the Trump administration near-unilateral power to strip nonprofit status from organizations—...

22.11.2024 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Time-Honored Tradition of Blaming the Left for Democratic Defeats

The Democratic Party is looking for a scapegoat for its disastrous 2024 election performance. As ever, no shortage of pundits and party operatives...

20.11.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Case For Ignoring Trump’s Daily Rage-Bait

As destructive as the next Trump administration will be, it’ll be productive in one critical sense: creating lots of things to get mad about. For...

18.11.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Can Democrats Keep Young Men From Turning Fascist?

Noted animal mutilator and brain-worm host Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to run the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human...

11.11.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Why Bidenomics Failed to Win the White Working Class

The pitch of Bidenomics was that it could solve several problems at once. Laws like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act,...

07.11.2024 3

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Underestimated Power of the Climate Voter

Climate voters could end up being an important part of what happens today. That’s a bit surprising considering how little either candidate has...

05.11.2024 3

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Year’s Weirdest Ballot Battle: Corporations vs. a Rich Libertarian

Two ballot initiatives in Washington state could overturn the state’s trademark climate law and prevent any local or state government from ever...

04.11.2024 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Europe’s Electric Vehicle Woes Are a Lesson for EVs Everywhere

Electric cars got top billing at this year’s Paris Auto Show. At the world’s largest such showcase, a central exhibition hall featured an “electric...

24.10.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Republican Donors’ Quiet, Dangerous Plans for the Next Presidency

22.10.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Who’s Going to Tell Harris the Truth About Carbon Markets?

18.10.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

You Can’t Measure Human Life in Dollars

14.10.2024 3

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Politicize Hurricane Milton, Please

09.10.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Whatever Happened to “Net Zero”?

In 2020, BP unveiled a plan to cut oil and gas production 40 percent by 2030 as part of the company’s goal to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 or...

08.10.2024 30

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Hurricane Helene Proves There Are No Climate Havens

More than 110 people are now believed to have died as a result of Hurricane Helene, the storm that swept through the Southeast over the weekend and...

01.10.2024 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Biden Says U.S. Is On Track to Cut Emissions in Half. That’s Not True.

24.09.2024 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Death Threats and Detained Pop Stars: Inside Serbia’s Lithium Battle

On her way to sing at a birthday party last month, Croatian pop star Severina Vučković was stopped and questioned about her political views by...

19.09.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Elon Musk Can’t Make E.V.s Popular. Maybe the Postal Service Can.

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for electric vehicles. Stellantis announced this week that it’s suspending production of its all-electric Fiat...

13.09.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Why Is NYT Inviting Project 2025’s Architect to a Climate Ideas Event?

On Thursday, The New York Times announced its speaker lineup for a day-long “Climate Forward” event the paper is hosting as part of Climate Week,...

06.09.2024 2

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Landslides Raise a Question: What Counts as a Climate-Related Death?

Last Sunday, after a stretch of relentless rain caused by an “atmospheric river,” a hillside above Ketchikan, Alaska, gave way and slid into town....

03.09.2024 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Democrats Are Running Scared From the Most Important Fights

At the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, for the first time all week, climate change was a major topic on the main stage. “An American...

24.08.2024 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Here’s the Populist Climate Message Harris Should Embrace

Kamala Harris has made tackling corporate price-gouging and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy cornerstones of her economic platform....

22.08.2024 6

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Project 2025 Operative: GOP Environmental Policy Is “Silly,” “Selfish”

As the world experiences what could be its hottest year on record, the right-wing groups behind the Project 2025 policy roadmap for a second Trump...

20.08.2024 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Don’t Believe Recent Headlines. The Inflation Reduction Act Worked.

This week marks two years since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, arguably the Biden administration’s signature legislative achievement....

16.08.2024 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Hurricane Debby Is Fading But Florida’s Hellish Insurance Crisis Isn’t

Since touching down off Florida’s Gulf Coast Monday, Hurricane Debby has claimed four lives in the state, dumped more than a foot of rain across...

10.08.2024 8

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Why the Left Shouldn’t Get Too Caught Up in the Harris-Walz Hype

Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick probably won’t make a huge difference to the fate of the planet. That said, Tim Walz is better than many...

07.08.2024 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

What Does Military Readiness Mean in a Warming World?

Earlier this month, NATO released the latest edition of its “Climate Change and Security Impact Assessment.” It stands to reason that the...

19.07.2024 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Democrats Can’t Stop Climate Change. They Can’t Even Stop Trump.

Senior Democrats, led by the Biden administration, have for years broadcast endless confidence in their party’s ability to achieve the by now...

17.07.2024 6

New Republic

Kate Aronoff