From the past few weeks:
- Corey Robin, Trump and the Intelligence Agencies: On the Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics
- Chris Smaje, 2016: A sheep’s vigil
- Robert Leonard (NYT), Why Rural America Voted for Trump [Ed.: I find Leonard’s piece depressing in that I see no basis for common ground. As an aside, the reality of taxes. ADDENDA: Dean Baker with some observations which suggests it’s not as straightforward as many – including Krugman and myself – might initially think. FAIR points out some right-wing mythology.]
- Joe Allen, When George Wallace Came to Town
- Matthew Sitman, Leaving Conservatism Behind
- Robert Mitchum, Dust Bowl would devastate today’s crops, study finds [Ed.: It’s all fun and games until climate change breaks agriculture.]
- Rae Ellen Bichell, A Really Big Crack In An Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Got Bigger
- Roger Harrabin, Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future
- Robinson Meyer, Are Climate Scientists Ready for Trump?
- Kate Aronoff, The Republicans Who Want Trump to Fight Climate Change
- Lamar Alexander and Sheldon Whitehouse (NYT), To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power
- Stanford scientist unveils 50-state plan to transform U.S. to renewable energy
- Michael Forsythe (NYT), China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020
- Joe Romm, Trump to cede millions of high-wage jobs to China
- , Green Growth: A U.S. Program for Controlling Climate Change and Expanding Job Opportunities
- Nathaniel Stinnett, Why Don’t Environmentalists Vote?
- Chad Orzel, What Should You Expect From Low-Energy Physics In 2017? It’s Hard To Say [Ed.: I left the field 20+ years ago but I have the same technical background as Orzel. Coincidence or not, I think our outlooks on the world as scientists have a lot in common.]