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Kate Aronoff

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The Symbolic Power of Burning Waymo Robotaxis

The Symbolic Power of Burning Waymo Robotaxis
thursday 10

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Kate Aronoff

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

It Would Be So Funny If Trump Nationalized ​Elon Musk’s Companies
07.06.2025 10

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Trump’s Attacks on Climate Policy Are Even Hitting Exxon

Trump’s Attacks on Climate Policy Are Even Hitting Exxon
05.06.2025 4

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Trump​ Is Going to Raise Your Insurance Premiums

Trump​ Is Going to Raise Your Insurance Premiums
03.06.2025 30

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The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke

29.05.2025 5

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Republicans Are Rewriting Congressional Rules So Cars Can Pollute More

23.05.2025 3

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Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States

20.05.2025 90

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The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.

14.05.2025 3

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AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked

09.05.2025 4

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Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running

07.05.2025 3

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The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum

05.05.2025 2

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Trump’s Cuts Are Making Natural Disasters Deadlier

30.04.2025 10

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Trump’s Policies Are Bad News for His Favorite Industry

25.04.2025 4

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Climate Change Has a Joe Rogan Problem

23.04.2025 3

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Will Trump Finally Kill the Bretton Woods System?

21.04.2025 4

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The Common Thread Between Abrego Garcia and the EPA’s “Gold Bars”

17.04.2025 10

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Democrats Are Embracing AI for the Dumbest Possible Reason

11.04.2025 5

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The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”

08.04.2025 10

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

04.04.2025 5

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

02.04.2025 10

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The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating

31.03.2025 2

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

28.03.2025 10

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

26.03.2025 4

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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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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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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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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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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 5

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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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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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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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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 4

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