“Social Movements Constrained Trump in His First Term – More Than People Realize.” The Conversation, March 18, 2025.
“12 Ways We Can Exploit Fossil Fuel Industry Vulnerabilities – Even under Trump.” Truthout, December 29, 2024.
“The UMass Foundation ‘Respectfully Denies’ Our Right to a Future.” Massachusetts Daily Collegian, December 10, 2024. With Brendan Post.
“The Historian Kevin A. Young, Author of ‘Abolishing Fossil Fuels,’ on Why the Fight for the Climate Isn’t Over.” Against the Grain (podcast), December 3, 2024.
“No, the Fight for the Climate Isn’t ‘Over.’” Jacobin, December 2, 2024.
“The Heavy Cost of Blocking the Energy Transition.” The Daily Review (Towanda, PA), August 3, 2024. (non-paywall version here)
“Smoothing the Contradictions: The Political History of Fossil Fuels.” In The Struggle for Natural Resources: Findings from Bolivian History, ed. Carmen Soliz and Rossana Barragán, 170–195. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2024.
“What the Climate Movement’s Debate about Disruption Gets Wrong.” Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 11, no. 25 (2024). With Laura Thomas-Walters.
“Fossil Fuels, the Ruling Class, and Prospects for the Climate Movement.” Political Power and Social Theory 39 (2023): 127–57.
“Stop Calling Them Conservatives.” Counterpunch, October 22, 2021.
“Here’s How to Fight Climate Destruction and Environmental Racism Simultaneously” (interview with James K. Boyce). Truthout, June 2, 2021.
“A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels? How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally).” TomDispatch, December 10, 2020. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.
“Will Climate Change Make Family Separations the Norm?” Truthout, August 25, 2018.
“Economic Growth, Climate Change, and Capitalism” (interview with Robin Hahnel), Truthout, July 7, 2016, and ZNet (extended version), July 9, 2016.
“The Propaganda of False Trade-Offs: Pitting the Public against Social Spending, Good Wages, and Environmental Protection.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 27, 2012.
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