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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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  • YearlyKos: I’m ugly and boring

    Hilarious. I was interviewed, briefly and randomly, by the Talking Points Memo guys, who were wandering around YearlyKos (and related parties) doing short video clips. Their video coverage is here. Apparently I was so boring I didn’t make the cut. Guess it’s true what they say: I’ve got a face for blogging!

  • Listen up

    I thought, as a final post on Yearly Kos (about which I fear my posts are woefully inadequate — it really was a fascinating sociopolitical event, worthy of better analysis than I’m able to give it — read Ezra Klein’s wrap-up), I’d recap in somewhat more elaborate terms what I said at my global warming […]

  • The next round of McKibben’s campaign

    I forgot some of the coolest (and breaking) news! At my panel earlier today, Bill McKibben "pre-announced" something exciting: On Nov. 3, a year before the presidential election, he will be organizing Step It Up 2: Revenge of the Nerds. OK, I made up the title, but not the news. At the first Step It […]

  • YearlyKos: My long day

    This morning, I woke up early to go to the Energize America 2020 panel. There was far too much information to replicate here — you can see the details of the plan on their site — but as I said earlier, what’s remarkable is that such a collaborative project has produced such a solid, practical […]