Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Lessons from the climate fight: McCain's a tool
One fact that bobs to the surface as you read Ryan Lizza's New Yorker piece on the death of the climate bill is that John McCain is kind of a tool.
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Lessons from the climate fight: 'moderate' is meaningless
Senators who claim to accept the basic scientific facts of climate change are dubbed "moderate" even as they treat climate policy with all the seriousness of an earmark haggle.
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Lessons from the climate fight: determined ignorance in the Senate
One aspect of Senate dysfunction that deserves emphasis is the degree to which policy is made out of ignorance, as shown in Ryan Lizza's New Yorker piece.
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Lessons from the climate fight: it's the Senate, stupid
In the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza's got a fantastic blow-by-blow account of the climate bill's demise. The central lesson is clear: it's the Senate, stupid.