Lizza lessons

A chat with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza about climate in the Senate

This month, The New Yorker ran an extraordinary 10,000-word piece by reporter Ryan Lizza detailing the climate bill's slow and inglorious failure in the U.S. Senate. It was a feat of inside reporting, meaty enough to support dozens of follow-on posts dissecting and illuminating it. I'm very pleased to report that Lizza will be stopping by for a chat with Grist readers and me TODAY at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific.

Lessons from the climate fight: Dem party leaders screwed the climate bill

The leadership of the Democratic Party did little to help the climate bill and much to hurt it, treating it with indifference, carelessness, and hostility.

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.

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.

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.

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.