Wen Stephenson

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In Our New Climate Reality, There Is No Getting Back to Normal

Jan 21, 2025 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson |Piper French |Sasha Abramsky |Lazo Gitchos

Environment / January 21, 2025 In Our New Climate Reality, There Is No Getting Back to NormalThe media is failing to warn us about the scale of the disasters that lie ahead. In Los Angeles, as everywhere, we need more than liberal technocratic tweaks. Ad Policy A blue Volkswagen van sits intact on a street amid homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, on January 15, 2025.
Climate Realism (Still) Means Climate Justice

Nov 14, 2024 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson

Environment / November 15, 2024 Climate Realism (Still) Means Climate JusticeAn interview with Tom Athanasiou on where climate geopolitics goes from here, and why unlocking trillions in climate finance is an “existential necessity.” Ad Policy Tom Athanasiou. In the wake of a catastrophic US election, in which the climate emergency barely registered, the immediate question on many minds is what a second Trump presidency will mean for the climate fight in this country.
Climate Justice Organizer to Citi CEO: “Talk Is Cheap”

Aug 7, 2024 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson

Activism / An interview with Alice Hu, one of the lead organizers of the “Summer of Heat” campaign targeting Wall Street fossil fuel financiers. Ad PolicySince June 10, a coalition of climate justice activists has blocked entrances and disrupted business-as-usual at Citigroup’s lower Manhattan headquarters a total of 15 times—and counting.
What Is Lost “Cannot Be Repaid”

May 6, 2024 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson

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An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe

Dec 3, 2023 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson

Feature / Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment. This article appears in the December 11/18, 2023 issue, with the headline “While this everywhere crying.”At first there was more to eat, then suddenly less. —“Aubade Now of Earth” (2022)I was on my way to visit Jane Hirshfield—but first I had to get to Stinson Beach without driving off a cliff into the pitch-dark Pacific.
“While this everywhere crying”

Nov 24, 2023 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson

Feature / Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment. This article appears in the December 11/18, 2023 issue, with the headline “While this everywhere crying.”At first there was more to eat, then suddenly less. —“Aubade Now of Earth” (2022)I was on my way to visit Jane Hirshfield—but first I had to get to Stinson Beach without driving off a cliff into the pitch-dark Pacific.
Architecture’s Labor Problem

Jul 31, 2023 | thenation.com | Kate Wagner |Wen Stephenson |Itzel Luna |Mychal Denzel Smith

The field tolerates misogyny, racism, and worker exploitation. No wonder it produced David Adjaye. Ad PolicyEarlier this month, the Financial Times released a damning exposé revealing a long history of abuse committed by one of architecture’s biggest stars, Ghana-born British architect David Adjaye. The news came as a shock, as Adjaye, who is Black, has long been seen as a beacon of progress in the overwhelmingly white profession of architecture.
Cornel West: The Christian Socialist Running for President

Jul 31, 2023 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson |Bill Lueders |Peter Gordon |Chris Lehmann

Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the author of 20 books, from Prophesy Deliverance! (1982) to Race Matters (1993) to Black Prophetic Fire (2014). He’s also, more controversially, a candidate for president of the United States on the 2024 Green Party ticket.
The Gospel of a New Christian Left

Jul 30, 2023 | msn.com | Wen Stephenson

The Rev. Traci Blackmon will never forget Charlottesville. she was there in August 2017 with a multi-faith contingent of fellow clergy, face-to-face with white supremacist Christian nationalists chanting, “You will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!” Blackmon also remembers the night before that deadly “Unite the Right” rally, preaching at the packed church across the street from the Thomas Jefferson statue on the campus of the University of Virginia.
The Gospel of a New Christian Left

Jul 22, 2023 | thenation.com | Wen Stephenson |Joan Walsh |Peter Dreier |David Wallace

This article appears in the August 7/14, 2023 issue. The Rev. Traci Blackmon will never forget Charlottesville.