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Alexandria Robins / April 23, 2021

Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate must protect the world’s forests from Wall Street

President Biden has big ambitions for protecting the climate. However, the US will be severely undermined in its move to become a climate leader if its own banks and investors are complicit in forest destruction
April 15, 2021

Biden can’t claim climate leadership while shipping fossil fuels abroad

To show true climate leadership, Biden must act to ban fossil fuel exports and protect communities from associated environmental injustices.
Alice Harrison / April 1, 2021

Big Oil is paying the police for protection. Here’s why that’s a problem

Protestors are calling on US President Biden to block a huge oil pipeline through their land, in the face of intimidation from police and politicians
Naomi Hirst / Feb. 5, 2021

One month on from the insurrection at the Capitol, our view on how to redeem social media

The online repercussions of the US Capitol riots put the power and reach of Big Tech in the spotlight. We now need action to tackle the platforms' role in enabling political division and extremism
Feb. 5, 2021

It’s time to end the power of climate-wrecking industries in the US

In the lead up to COP26, the surge of climate action coming from the US could help mark 2021 as a historic turning point. But curbing climate breakdown will take a movement – not a moment.
Jan. 27, 2021

An open letter to Elon Musk on his promises to donate millions for carbon capture tech

Ultimately, Mr. Musk, if you are interested in advancing real climate solutions, we ask that you begin by looking internally into your corporate practices of alleged exploitation and extraction, rather than perpetuating false climate solutions.
Jan. 15, 2021

Amid Pro-Trump violence and white supremacy, accountability and justice must prevail

In this fragile moment, when American democracy hangs in the balance, we must adamantly reject the systems of oppression that embolden perpetrators of violence and hate. The work for a just and equitable future continues.
Dec. 16, 2020

The era of anonymous companies in the US is nearly over

The US is clamping down on the getaway cars for the world’s criminal and corrupt. Unmasking anonymous companies in the US has been over a decade in the making.
Sam Leon & Rosie Sharpe / Nov. 10, 2020

Who micro-targeted political ads more - the Trump or Biden campaign?

We believe that targeting online political ads to small groups of people harms democracy. So we wondered how the Trump and Biden campaigns had been targeting their ads on Facebook during the 2020 presidential election. Do they predominantly target ads to a wide group of people or to lots of narrow groups of people?
Keisha Wiggan / Oct. 1, 2020

Calling out racial injustice in the US

The racial injustice disparities we see in nearly every part of society are not accidents. They are the result of racist systems that impose burden after burden on Black lives and people of color.

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