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CALERA, Ala.—Fenn Church knew what he had to do.  “I’m going to stand in front of that gate and say, ‘This is my home, and I’m not letting you drive through that gate,’” Church said on Thursday morning. “And then if they want to arrest me, they can handcuff me and take me to jail […]

Boeing has almost completed the demolition of five buildings at its infamous Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California, even as concerns mount among nearby families about potential health harms. The buildings at the former Rocketdyne facility—where one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in U.S. history took place in 1959—were once used for Cold War-era […]

Nearly all observers agree that Alabama’s new data center policies released this week are an improvement over the state’s old rules, which treat massive, power-hungry data centers like any other large industrial operation.  But several groups say the new rules for contracts between the data centers and Alabama Power, the state’s largest electric utility, don’t […]

By 2075, the vast majority of the world’s shallow coral reefs could cease to function as both critical habitat for marine life and a lifeline for hundreds of millions of people who rely on them.  According to a new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 96 percent of the planet’s 127 major […]

In June 2013, torrential rain spurred one of the worst flooding events in Canada’s history. Sadie Vipond, who grew up in Calgary along the Bow River, was just a young child at the time when she and her family had to flee their home. “That was pretty scary with the evacuation,” she recalled.  Her family […]

When PFAS concentrations in drinking water fall below laboratory reporting limits, they are sometimes treated as “zero” in statistical analyses. But a new study published in Cell Reports Sustainability, which reanalyzed federal monitoring data, found that estimated PFAS concentrations in U.S. drinking water could be more than twice as high as calculations that treat results […]

If you listen to the candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat in Alaska, some of the biggest issues in the race revolve around the state’s fisheries, its oil and gas development and soaring prices for fuel and other staples. Left largely unsaid, however, is that climate change is playing a role in at least […]

A new report suggests dozens of “forever chemicals” linked with cancer and other human health problems are prevalent in Florida waterways, reflecting widespread contamination of the toxic chemicals in streams, rivers and lakes across the country. Roughly 96 percent of 23 Florida waterways tested between 2022 and 2024 contained 43 different kinds of PFAS, according […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa.—In all her 38 years living in South Whitehall Township in the Lehigh Valley, Laurie Gilley had never attended a municipal meeting, much less gotten involved in the politics of her community. But then she learned that a data center was being planned for 400 acres of land across from her home and the […]

Heat-related deaths in Europe’s urban areas exceeded 50,000 in the summer of 2026, as repeated waves of record-breaking temperatures swept across the continent from late May through August.  More than 32,000 of those deaths were attributable to human-caused global warming, driven primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, according to studies published in Nature Health. […]

A United Nations fund to help developing nations pay the costs imposed by climate change voted Thursday to allocate money for Nepal as the country recovers from devastating flooding in August. It was a historic step for the fund—the first time it has allocated money to a vulnerable country in an immediate response to climate […]

This year has seen the resolution of major suits against tech giants Alphabet and Meta, both of which were found liable for serious lawbreaking. Yet the penalties imposed on the corporations are laughably inadequate to restrain their power.

Evangelical churches like Rick Warren’s wouldn’t be as massive as they are with real retention of members over time without a serious plan for member leadership development. The Left could learn from them.

In You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim turn their confrontation with Elizabeth Holmes into a Hitchcockian thriller about the slippery nature of truth. It’s a masterpiece.

Thomas Frank on the middle class’s most cherished idea, creativity, and how it became the cover story for the plutocracy that replaced it.

In her new book, economist Isabella Weber explains how inflation has helped drive the far right’s ascendance around the developed world — and how effective price regulation can promote affordability and boost the Left.

Key to a long-term solution to defeating the far right is an economic program that guarantees security to all, including the affordability of housing and other essential components of a dignified life, Isabella Weber tells Jacobin.

Some of the arguments against data centers sound familiar. Opponents say the projects will change the look and feel of a place, harm the air and water and reduce property values. This rationale is familiar because residents have raised the same concerns in campaigns against wind and solar. Whether these objections to very different types […]

Peter Thomas, the Marxist theorist best known for his work on Antonio Gramsci, has died. He restored the political edge to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and saw his own scholarship as part of the Left’s fight for power.

Rising food prices. Supply chain disruptions. Wars. More extreme weather. The confluence of these factors in 2026 has prompted researchers, advocacy groups and farmers around the world to more forcefully question the architecture of an increasingly stressed global food system—and the money, both public and private, that supports it. Coinciding with harvest season in much […]