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Why Resolving Democrats’ Internal War on Climate Policy Will Be Hard

Kate Aronoff The New Republic
Details on the permitting reform demanded by Senator Manchin remain scant. Many fear it could prove a giveaway to fossil fuel companies. The majority leader seems determined to see it through, despite ever more Democrats expressing their skepticism.

Railroad Companies Almost Inflicted an Economic Disaster on the U.S.

Terri Gerstein and Jenny Hunter Slate
All because they chose profits over humane working policies. What this fight is really about: the persistent difficulty some large corporations have in understanding that their workers are human beings, and not just one more piece of machinery.

Jean-Luc Godard Was Cinema’s North Star

Richard Brody The New Yorker
The French director did more than transform the aesthetic and the practice of filmmaking—he turned the cinema into the central art form of his time.

Chile’s Constitutional Makeover, Take 2

John Dinges The Nation
The Boric government can recover from the lopsided rejection of Chile’s new Constitution by harnessing the energy behind the country’s reform movement.