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New York’s Congestion Pricing Is Working. Now Comes the Real Test.

New York’s Congestion Pricing Is Working. Now Comes the Real Test.
21.01.2025 5

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Trump: Better Public Transit

A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Trump: Better Public Transit

As climate activists mourn the November election and steel themselves for a second Trump presidency, a small, countervailing trend seems to be...

06.01.2025 7

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

A New Year’s Resolution for an Uncertain Future

Normally, just like everyone else, I just resolve to spend more time at the gym. But as the first Trump inauguration loomed, in early January 2017,...

31.12.2024 7

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Could New York Fight Fascism with Climate Policy?

One lesson commentators and strategists are drawing from the 2024 election is that Democrats ignore the cost of living at their peril. That has...

25.11.2024 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

The Democrats Can’t Afford to Ignore Climate Change Ever Again

Climate change has been tragically visible this fall. In the Valencia region of Spain, hundreds are dead or missing after intense flooding last...

08.11.2024 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

States Need to Do What National Leaders Won’t

In the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that no matter who moves into the White House in January, much of the vital work of greening...

13.10.2024 1

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

The Surreal Doublespeak of Big Tech at Climate Week

I’m not a fan of New York City’s Climate Week . As I wrote last year, the annual programming timed to coincide with the United Nations General...

27.09.2024 10

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Kids Need Teachers, Not Bots

Last week, when New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks sat for an interview with The New York Times , the big headline was that he called New...

16.09.2024 10

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Harris Can Win RFK Jr. Voters While Doing the Right Thing

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week ended his strange campaign—which included horrific revelations about his personal life, along with the more...

28.08.2024 10

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Worried About Our Democracy? Start by Protecting Protesters.

Last Thursday, 63-year-old John Mark Rozendaal performed a Bach cello suite outside the Citibank headquarters in New York City, as part of the...

15.08.2024 20

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Harris Should Focus on Pleasing Young Voters, Not Donors and Centrists

My eighteen-year-old summer students came to class early last week and drew coconuts on the board—a reference to one of several rapidly spreading...

31.07.2024 1

New Republic

Liza Featherstone