Forget “Day One.” Ask Your Candidate What They’ll *Start* on Day One.
Killing standards for tailpipe emissions in cars and trucks may seem easy, but you can only do it if you can show there’s an actual reason for it. A stroke of a pen won’t do the job.Kevin Drum Presidential candidates often talk about what they’d do on “Day One.” This is dumb. There’s very little…
The Tiny Indigenous Village That Ground Canada To A Halt
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs lead a rally in British Columbia, on Jan. 10, 2020. Jason Franson/AP This week, activists across Canada ground railways to a halt, barred provincial legislatures from meeting, and blockaded ports to demonstrate support for Indigenous land rights. At the center of the battle are three First Nations women from a remote village in British Columbia who were…
The Sunrise Movement Is Taking the Fight to Big Oil’s Home Turf
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., addresses The Road to the Green New Deal Tour final event at Howard University in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019Cliff Owen / AP Photo This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Sunrise Movement, the youth campaign behind the Green New Deal, called…
Car ‘Splatometer’ Tests Reveal Huge Decline in the Number of Insects
A truck driver cleans dead bugs off his windshield at a truck stop in Baytown, Texas. Brett Coomer/AP This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Two scientific studies of the number of insects splattered by cars have revealed a huge decline in abundance at European sites…
Dubbing vs Subtitles, part three
Kevin Drum I have one more quick point I’d like to make about the great subtitle war. (My fuller response is here.) A great deal of the pushback I got went something like this: Anyone who knows anything about cinema prefers subtitles to dubbing. Only idiots who can’t read would choose a dubbed movie instead.…
Are You Stupid If You Don’t Like Subtitles?
Kevin Drum I have one more quick point I’d like to make about the great subtitle war. A great deal of the pushback I got went something like this: Anyone who knows anything about cinema prefers subtitles to dubbing. Only idiots who can’t read would choose a dubbed movie instead. It’s true that movie buffs…