An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe
Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment.
Dec 4, 2023 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
Cornel West: The Christian Socialist Running for President Cornel West: The Christian Socialist Running for President
In an exclusive interview with The Nation, the candidate talks church, state, prophecy—and politics.
Jul 31, 2023 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson
The Gospel of a New Christian Left The Gospel of a New Christian Left
Faith leaders around the country are building a resistance movement against Christian nationalism.
Jul 31, 2023 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
What It’s Like to Be Trans and Christian in Nashville Right Now What It’s Like to Be Trans and Christian in Nashville Right Now
Talking with Nashville-based transqueer Christian scholar and activist Roberto Ché Espinoza about faith, violence, and healing.
Apr 5, 2023 / Wen Stephenson
The Media’s Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy The Media’s Recent Turn to “Climate Optimism” Is a Cruel Fantasy
Beneath the upbeat messaging, the latest UN climate report makes it clear that while the means to save the planet may still be available, the political will is nowhere in sight.
Apr 3, 2023 / Editorial / Wen Stephenson
Against Climate Optimism—Because “Team Normal” Won’t Save the World Against Climate Optimism—Because “Team Normal” Won’t Save the World
Some of us refuse to go along with a mainstream climate movement that settles for genocide.
Dec 19, 2022 / Wen Stephenson
Coal Trains and Climate Protest: It’s Spring in New England Coal Trains and Climate Protest: It’s Spring in New England
What connects anti-war demonstrations in Russia with climate activists in the US? An opposition to fossil capital.
Mar 30, 2022 / Wen Stephenson
Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood on Their New Initative, Third Act Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood on Their New Initative, Third Act
They spoke to The Nation about their generation—and how to get their peers back in the streets.
Oct 25, 2021 / Wen Stephenson
Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau
“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?”
Aug 11, 2021 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
Stop the Enbridge Ecocide! Stop the Enbridge Ecocide!
From Minnesota to Massachusetts, the Canadian pipeline company is engaged in crimes against humanity and the earth—abetted by state power.
Jul 6, 2021 / Wen Stephenson