The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Unions Gear Up for Climate Mega-March
With 400,000 members and 85,000 retirees, SEIU 1199 is among the biggest unions to sign up so far for the People's Climate March in New York in September.
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From Dallas to Seattle, From Taos to New York: Citizens Say Get Money Out of Politics
The Rolling Rebellion is now halfway through its one-week debut and has a lot to show for it – from coast to coast, activists have taken their creative zeal to the streets in a myriad of ways.
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Teens Sue U.S. Government over Climate Inaction As Youth Revolt Spreads
An unprecedented, massive legal campaign led by young Americans, accusing the government of negligence in dealing with the climate crisis, is playing out in courtrooms across the nation.
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Indigenous Activists Invoke the Sacred As Keystone Pipeline Standoff Continues
"We are living the nightmare. We live in the shadow of ConocoPhillips."
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Nearly 400 Arrested at Largest Youth-led Civil Disobedience Action in a Generation
If President Obama doesn't stop the pipeline with his pen, activists will stop it with their bodies.
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No More Red Scares: Fighting Fair Against Keystone XL and Fossil Fuel Expansion
Tom Steyer and NextGen Climate’s anti-Keystone pipeline ad made Americans sit up.
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Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
If the record ongoing releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are aided and abetted by massive releases of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, life as we humans have known it might be at an end on this planet.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Bay Area Commits to 80% Greenhouse Gas Reduction
The goal is to reduce emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
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Direct Action Against Coal in Seattle
With the conflict over two coal export terminals brewing on the horizon and an incumbent mayor making big climate promises, Seattle is emerging as the center of a new climate showdown.