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The Myth of Algae Biofuels

Today, ExxonMobil’s efforts to promote algae biofuels as a climate solution seem disingenuous. They represent more of a public relations strategy than a serious effort to mitigate climate change.

How Progressive are America’s Cities?

As inequality has impacted underprivileged urban communities, local governments have made efforts to make their cities more just. Yet the question remains: Just how progressive are America’s cities?

A Liberal State Lacking Women

Female political representation is too important for us to wait 53 years to close the political gender gap. Massachusetts needs more women in power.

The Politics of Impeachment: A Question of Legitimacy

When it comes to Trump’s impeachment, there is a strong and consistent partisan divide in public opinion.

It’s Time to Recognize Suicide as a Driver of Gun-Related Deaths

If activists hope to significantly reduce gun violence in American society, they must overcome this culture of silence and consider the close link between access to guns and suicide.

The Amendment Bigger Than the Constitution

Ratifying the ERA should be a priority for Virginia lawmakers in 2020 and a national imperative when the time comes to formally ratify the amendment at the federal level.

The Third Party Mystery

Third-party candidates work tirelessly to challenge the ways in which people think about the problems facing our country, and they have not given up the hope that one day one of them will sit in the Oval Office.

The Democrats Face Faith

2020 Democratic presidential candidates' faith-based appeals represent a departure from the recent past and signal a window of opportunity to retool the Democratic party’s appeal to the American people.

Who’s Really Responsible for Climate Change?

Combating climate change requires holding fossil fuel producers accountable for their outsized contribution to the climate crisis by implementing carbon pricing to reflect the true cost of fossil fuels.

Is Impeachment Anti-Democratic?

In the weeks leading up to the impeachment proceedings, President Donald Trump and his supporters have claimed for their defense a central pillar of American government: democracy. Impeaching Trump is wrong, they argue, because it is anti-democratic. But impeachment is necessarily democratic at every step of the process.