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The Lithium Problem: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2023

Can we rapidly reduce carbon emissions while minimizing the damage caused by resource extraction?

Climate Still Changes Everything

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2023

The U.S. climate movement has largely grown in response to setbacks and defeats. What will it do in the face of an underwhelming victory?

Backlash and Bad Vibes

Alyssa Battistoni, Timothy Shenk, David Shor, Nikhil Pal Singh and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2022

A roundtable on Democrats and the left.

Will Joe Biden Be the First Climate President?

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ November 16, 2020

Biden can and should use executive action to reduce emissions. But we also need policies that can help build a popular base for climate action, connected to material improvements in people’s lives.

Bad Romance

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2020

The afterlife of The Romance of American Communism shows that no political movement ever really ends. We bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.

After Carbon Democracy

Alyssa Battistoni and Jedediah Britton-Purdy ▪ Winter 2020

The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change.

Bruno Latour’s flirtations with the paranoid style of climate politics are a summation of ideas long in the making—ideas that those attempting to preserve a planet shared by all will have to take into account, but will also have to reach beyond.

The False Promise of Universal Basic Income

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2017

Long dismissed as utopian, proposals for a universal basic income are now gaining traction on both the right and the left. But UBI’s supporters on the left should proceed with caution.