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Kate Aronoff

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Democrats Are Embracing AI for the Dumbest Possible Reason

Democrats Are Embracing AI for the Dumbest Possible Reason
11.04.2025 5

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”

The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”
08.04.2025 10

New Republic

Kate Aronoff

Here’s What Trump’s Tariffs Could Do to the U.S. Auto Industry

Here’s What Trump’s Tariffs Could Do to the U.S. Auto Industry
04.04.2025 5

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Kate Aronoff

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going to Work How He Thinks They Will

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going to Work How He Thinks They Will
02.04.2025 10

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Kate Aronoff

The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating

The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating
31.03.2025 2

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Kate Aronoff

Dems and Fossil Fuel Execs Agree on One Thing: Hating Donald Trump

Dems and Fossil Fuel Execs Agree on One Thing: Hating Donald Trump
28.03.2025 10

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Kate Aronoff

Trump’s Critical-Minerals Obsession Is Leading to Some Weird Places

Trump’s Critical-Minerals Obsession Is Leading to Some Weird Places
26.03.2025 4

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Kate Aronoff

Elon Musk Is the One Who Set Tesla on Fire

21.03.2025 30

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Is the American Electric Car Already Dead?

17.03.2025 10

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The Trump Regime’s Climate “Realism” Is Even Worse Than It Sounds

13.03.2025 9

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Elon Musk Hates GDP for the Wrong Reason

07.03.2025 4

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Kate Aronoff

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog

05.03.2025 10

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Medicaid Isn’t the Only Popular, Life-Saving Program the GOP Will Cut

28.02.2025 2

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The Nature Conservancy’s Embarrassing Capitulation to Trump

26.02.2025 5

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Trump and Musk’s Lawless Power Grab Is Scrambling the Legal Resistance

24.02.2025 2

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Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance

14.02.2025 20

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Kate Aronoff

Sean Duffy’s War on Transportation Safety

05.02.2025 5

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

16.01.2025 5

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

10.01.2025 10

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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

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Banks Celebrate the New Year by Quitting Their Climate Pledges

The beginning of the year is a chance for a fresh start: to shed bad habits, make good on New Year’s resolutions, and turn over a new page. Some of...

03.01.2025 10

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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 10

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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

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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

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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

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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 4

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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 5

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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 20

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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 7

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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

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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 4

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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 3

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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 10

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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

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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 5

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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

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Don’t Cancel Your Post Subscription—or Prime. Organize Your Workplace.

In an op-ed released this week, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos rejected speculation that his decision to block the paper from...

30.10.2024 3

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How American Sanctions Fuel Terrible Climate Policy Around the World

An ongoing investigation from The Washington Post reports that U.S. government sanctions are now “targeting a third of all nations with some kind...

29.10.2024 3

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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 4

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Kate Aronoff

Republican Donors’ Quiet, Dangerous Plans for the Next Presidency

22.10.2024 10

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

18.10.2024 10

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You Can’t Measure Human Life in Dollars

14.10.2024 3

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Politicize Hurricane Milton, Please

09.10.2024 10

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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

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Kate Aronoff

Helene Should Trigger a National Rethink of Home Insurance

As people across the Southeast continue to pick up the pieces from Hurricane Helene, many will continue to face a rude awakening: that they—or...

03.10.2024 2

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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 5

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Biden Fears Chinese Cars Are Spying. But Tesla and GM Are, Too.

Earlier this week, the Commerce Department proposed a wide-reaching rule to prohibit Chinese-developed software and connectivity-related hardware...

26.09.2024 30

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Kate Aronoff

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

24.09.2024 10

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Kate Aronoff

The U.S. Has a Methane Problem. A.I. Is Making It Worse.

Countries and corporations like pledging to reduce methane—in part because reducing methane emissions seems like low-hanging fruit: You can cut a...

23.09.2024 9

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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 4

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