Beef Industry Climate Impact

After decades of denial, new studies show they knew all along By Georgina Gustin The livestock industry’s impact on climate change became widely known with a bombshell United Nations report published in 2006, called Livestock’s…


Microplastics Hinder Plant Photosynthesis

By Damian Carrington The pollution of the planet by microplastics is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging the ability of plants to photosynthesize, according to a new assessment. The analysis estimates that between 4 percent…


Reciprocity: Rethinking Our Relationship

with the Natural World By Mary Evelyn Tucker Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, published in 2013, explored how humans intersect with and depend upon the rest of the living world. A member of the Citizen…



7 Ways to Rise Up Against Trumpism 2.0

By Sonali Kolhatkar Since Donald Trump’s second term began on Jan. 20, 2025, his administration has aggressively launched a deluge of multipronged attacks on immigrants, transgender people, racial equity initiatives, federal workers, climate regulations, and…





The Federal Government is Too Small

Commentary by Algernon Austin and Jordan Billings When Donald Trump was born, the federal government work­force made up 4.5 percent of all nonfarm workers. Today, the federal workforce makes up only 1.5 percent. This is…


Veterans to GIs: We Will Support You

Veterans for Peace will support soldiers who question Trump’s orders By Veterans for Peace Veterans For Peace strongly objects to the Trump Admin­istration’s racist campaign of mass deportation of undocumented workers, who are our friends,…