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Dismantling Bretton Woods To Pay the Climate Bill

Tina Gerhardt The Nation
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.

Tidbits – Dec. 1, 2022 – Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun Violence; Jewish Divide Over Netanyahu; Readers Debate Ukraine; Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute to Juan González; More

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Reader Comments: Railroad Workers Deserve Sick Days; More Gun Violence; Jewish Divide Over Netanyahu; Readers Debate Ukraine; Thanksgiving Origins; Afterlife of Paris Commune; Fifty Year Tribute to Juan González; More Announcements; Cartoons;

Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below

Marcus Rediker The Nation
The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world. Working with his partner Alice (Niles) Lynd, he relentlessly sought out new sources of combat and inspiration.

The Autoworker Who Transformed California

Nelson Lichtenstein, Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Paul Schrade, 1924 - 2022, devoted his life to building an America and a California that enjoyed broadly shared prosperity and racial egalitarianism. It’s that for which he should be remembered.

Friday Nite Videos | May 17, 2019

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Green New Deal | John Oliver. Nothing Happened. Trailer for George Clooney's Catch-22. New Unredacted Information Re: Obstruction. Amber Ruffin Explains Alabama’s Abortion Ban.

How to Move Toward Impeachment, Now

Jeffrey C. Isaac Public Seminar
There comes a time when it is necessary to accept a bully’s challenge; to have confidence in your ability to summon your strength to win; and then to do it. It's time.

Green New Deal

 
With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions. Guest Bill Nye the Science Guy literally torches complacency about global warming.