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Kate Aronoff

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The Trump Administration Is All In for Glyphosate, MAHA Be Damned

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the German pharmaceutical and agrochemical giant Bayer cannot be sued in state courts for failing to...

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New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump’s Algae Problem Is a Lot Bigger Than the Reflecting Pool

Donald Trump dreamed of turning the Lincoln Reflecting Pool “American Flag Blue” in advance of celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary on...

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New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Democrats Begrudgingly Agree That It Is Good to End a War They Oppose

The United States and Iran have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, or (MOU), to end an Iran War that—when it began—Congressional Democrats...

22.06.2026 20

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump Hit Oil and Gas Harder Than Climate Policy Ever Could

A fifth of the world’s oil supplies typically flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Amid America’s disastrous war of choice against Iran, it’s now...

18.06.2026 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Did Jared Kushner Inadvertently Touch Off an Albanian Revolution?

There is a non-zero chance that Jared Kushner will play a pivotal and entirely accidental role in bringing down the government of Albania. Over the...

16.06.2026 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God

Ahead of going public, Anthropic is nearing a $1 trillion valuation, surpassing OpenAI—now valued at $862 billion—to become the world’s most...

12.06.2026 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Colombia’s Showy Far-Right Candidate Is Exactly Trump’s Type

Colombia may be on the verge of electing a far-right president who’s mused about how much fun he had blowing up cats as a kid. On Sunday, in a...

04.06.2026 7

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Meet the Far-Right Nepo Baby Vying to Deregulate Texas’s Fossil Fuels

It would be hard to know from his campaign alone what office exactly Bo French is running for. He’s raged about the supposed “Islamification” of...

02.06.2026 8

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

​Trump Quietly Weakened Heat Rules​ Just in Time for a Broiling Summer

Summer is just getting started, and people are already dying. Western Europe is sweltering through a climate-fueled “heat dome” that has trapped...

28.05.2026 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump Twisted a Climate Debate Beyond Recognition

Over the last few weeks, the United States right loudly claimed victory in a battle that few people on earth knew was happening. The National...

26.05.2026 8

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Elon Musk and Sam Altman Are on the Same Side

Every now and again, a billionaire doesn’t get what he wants. On Monday, Elon Musk was handed a rare loss when a federal jury in San Francisco...

19.05.2026 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump’s FEMA Is an Unnatural Disaster

FEMA is not all right. As the United States faces another summer of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change, the Federal Emergency Management...

15.05.2026 10

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Kate Aronoff

Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change

Democrats—who mostly aren’t talking about climate change—are continuing to debate whether they should talk about climate change.

13.05.2026 10

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Kate Aronoff

Louisiana Republicans Seem Content to Let New Orleans Drown

In the coming decades, New Orleans will be surrounded by ocean. That’s the contention of a paper published this week in Nature Sustainability. It...

07.05.2026 9

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump’s Iran War Is Smashing His Fossil Fuel Dreams

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and it isn’t poised to open anytime soon. Donald Trump signaled on Wednesday that he intends to keep the U.S....

01.05.2026 8

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Lee Zeldin Is Trying To Dodge His MAHA Critics

For an uncomfortably long time on Monday, two lawmakers shouted at one another about climate change in a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing...

29.04.2026 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Waymos Aren’t Going to Solve Traffic Deaths

Every week, it seems, Waymos pop up in another U.S. city. And as these Alphabet-backed robotaxis spread, so do the fights over them, at just about...

27.04.2026 9

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Chief Justice John Roberts Sounds a Lot Like the Fossil Fuel Lobby

Over the weekend, the New York Times published a fairly explosive investigation into the birth of the Supreme Court’s modern shadow docket....

22.04.2026 4

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Democrats May Believe Climate Change Is Real. They Don’t Act Like It.

This week, scientists reported that the collapse of a critical Atlantic current system is more likely than many of them feared. The Atlantic...

17.04.2026 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Denialism Presidency

Last month was the hottest March ever recorded in the United States. This week, the Northeast and Plains states are sweating through record-breaking...

16.04.2026 20

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Kate Aronoff

Bombs and Porn Are Bad Reasons to Build More Data Centers

Data center construction isn’t going as planned. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that nearly half of the 12 gigawatts in computing power worth...

14.04.2026 9

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Sam Altman Is Giving OpenAI a Makeover to Woo Democrats

OpenAI has a New Deal to sell you. On Monday, the embattled tech company released an “industrial policy” blueprint that lays out a series of...

09.04.2026 7

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Gas Prices Are Going Through the Roof. Automakers Aren’t Bothered.

The cars on display at the New York City International Auto Show, which opened to the public at the end of last week, have a lot in common. There are...

07.04.2026 8

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Iran War Is Forcing an Energy Transition. But What Kind?

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is losing sleep. That’s what he told a crowd on Juju Island earlier this week while discussing the...

02.04.2026 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Markets Are In Denial About the War in Iran

Something strange is happening in the global economy.

27.03.2026 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Trump Thinks He Can Magically Control the Price of Oil

Amid the deadly, illegal, half-baked war the U.S. and Israeli governments are waging against Iran, Donald Trump has managed to stick to his morning...

26.03.2026 9

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Kate Aronoff

The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy

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The So-Called Energy Transition Never Happened

26.09.2025 20

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Kate Aronoff

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence

18.09.2025 20

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Kate Aronoff

The Union Organizer Held in a Secret Detention Center He Helped Expose

16.09.2025 10

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Kate Aronoff

Republicans Want To Scare You Off Mass Transit. Cars Are Scarier.

12.09.2025 10

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ICE’s Raid on Hyundai Was as Stupid as It Was Cruel

09.09.2025 10

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It’s Time for the MAHA Moms to Turn on RFK Jr., Too

04.09.2025 20

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Fighting Wildfires Is Hellish Work. It’s Even Worse Under Trump.

04.08.2025 20

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Trump’s EPA Is Hurting the Automakers It’s Claiming to Help

30.07.2025 10

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Kate Aronoff

Trump’s EPA Is Now Flouting the World’s Highest Court

24.07.2025 10

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Yet Another Way Republicans Are Making Life More Expensive

23.07.2025 9

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Common Thread Between Epstein Denial and Climate Denial

18.07.2025 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

How Trump is Ruining Your Subway Commute

16.07.2025 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The EPA’s Lee Zeldin Is Unleashing a Chemical Nightmare

11.07.2025 20

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Climate Disasters Are Catnip for Cynical Republicans

10.07.2025 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Democrats Should​ Say Who’s Really to Blame for the ​Flooding in Texas

08.07.2025 10

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Kate Aronoff

UPS Drivers Are Battling Deadly Heat—Without A.C. in Their Trucks

25.06.2025 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves

21.06.2025 20

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The $1 Trillion Climate Problem​ Republicans Are Ignoring

19.06.2025 10

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Billionaire Bill Ackman Wants War With Iran. Does Andrew Cuomo?

18.06.2025 40

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Trump Is Freeing Up Public Lands for Big Oil. It Doesn’t Want Them.

16.06.2025 20

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The Symbolic Power of Burning Waymo Robotaxis

12.06.2025 30

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It Would Be So Funny If Trump Nationalized ​Elon Musk’s Companies

07.06.2025 20

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Trump’s Attacks on Climate Policy Are Even Hitting Exxon

05.06.2025 10

New Republic

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