Issa Sikiti da Silva reports on the struggles for many in the Sahel, the area between the Sahara in the north and the Sudanian Savanna in the south where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth.
Camilla Nelson and Meg Vertigan comment on the stereotypical labels deployed against the young climate activist.
Lisa Schulte Moore sees the Iowa caucuses as an opportunity to spotlight innovative and “regenerative” farming methods that produce goods and services while also improving soil and water resources, unique habitats and pastoral countrysides.
Charges that the Green New Deal will crash the budget and serve as an antechamber to socialism are just as bogus as similar arguments against its Depression-era predecessor, writes Steve Fraser.
Rafiq Hariri, assassinated in 2005, is more responsible than any other person for the corrupt economic-political system fueling the demonstrations, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.