Issue #1 – RIGHT TURN
In the wake of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, our first issue, RIGHT TURN, explores climate politics in an age of rising authoritarianism, asking what happens when the future of the planet is shaped by a hardening new right.
Contributors
The Heat of the Moment
Adrienne Buller, Geoff Mann
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
•13 min read
Delete, Delete, Delete
John Merrick
How should we understand the contradictions of Elon Musk?
•12 min read
Morbid Symptoms
The Zetkin Collective
Climate denial is entering a new phase. What comes next is not yet determined.
•12 min read
Exiled in Austin, TX
Kahron Spearman
To live in temporal exile is to exist outside of time, confined by deliberate social and infrastructural policies that erase history and foreclose the future.
•13 min read
Petrol For the People
Lukas Slothuus
Sweden’s far right defines its vision of climate action.
•13 min read
Real Constraints
Lara Merling
Finance for climate action is limited by orthodoxy, not reality
•11 min read
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
Beki McElvain
In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives this risk new meaning.
•11 min read
What is Climate Science for?
Véronique Carignan
The relationship between science and the US government has been, from the start, deliberate and strategic
•12 min read
Organizing Against Abandonment
Youssef Bouchi
On the history and future of USAID
•11 min read
A Green Cold War
Ilias Alami
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.
•13 min read
Failure as Success
Brett Christophers
What is Biden’s climate legacy?