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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Friday music blogging: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Ariel Pink got his start in the Los Angeles low-fi freak folk scene, which I know nothing about. Recently, though, he put a stable band together, the Haunted Graffiti, and earlier this year put out an album, Before Today. It's confounding and addicting.
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The South has renewable energy too!
It's time for Southern senators to realize that their states have renewable energy too and they should support a renewable electricity standard.
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The filibuster is giving enviros unwarranted self-esteem issues
The dysfunctional state of the Senate has damaging consequences that extend into virtually every corner of American politics. There's just one in particular I want to focus on today, namely: it gives progressives a complex!
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Why did the climate bill fail?
With the climate bill officially dead, there's already a trickle of "who's to blame and what they should have done differently" pieces. Most of these pieces will focus in the wrong places. Were I doing an autopsy on the death of the bill, here are the causal factors I'd single out.