John Light
John Light is a reporter and digital producer for the Bill Moyers team. His work has appeared at The Atlantic, Grist, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Vox and Al Jazeera, and has been broadcast on Public Radio International. He's a graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. You can follow him on Twitter at @LightTweeting.
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Views Sunday, November 13, 2016 The Lawsuit That Could Save the Planet Donald Trump’s election to the presidency is a devastating blow to the environmental community, coming at a crucial juncture in the fight against climate change. As Rebecca Leber and Ben Adler write for Grist , nearly all of President Barack Obama’s climate legacy probably will be undone in the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 05, 2016 A Colorado Ballot Measure Could Make it Nearly Impossible to Ban Fracking The Colorado oil and gas industry is poised to strike a devastating blow against anti-fracking activists Tuesday. Enactment of Amendment 71 , a statewide ballot initiative campaign that’s backed by the industry, will make it, in the words of the Denver Post’ s editorial board, “ nearly impossible... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 28, 2016 The Long Path to Reversing Citizens United Getting unlimited, special-interest money out of politics, an issue long on the back burner for politicians in Washington, moved front and center with this election year, driven by an outpouring of voter frustration. Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump ignited widespread support by pitching... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 14, 2016 The $1 Billion Election No One Is Noticing Multimillionaire John Brunner is a victim of money in politics. In 2012, he spent millions to win the Republican nomination for US Senate in Missouri and was defeated, in part because Democrats, in the words of Sen. Claire McCaskill , the incumbent who was up for re-election that year, “spent more... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 06, 2016 The Paris Agreement Is Set to Go Into Effect. Will it Be Trumped? The European Union on Tuesday voted to opt in to the Paris climate agreement, paving the way for the historic global pact to go into effect next month. That means this first US-backed international effort to keep climate change under control will enter into force right around the time the US will... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 25, 2016 Will Bernie Sanders’ Political Movement Have Life Beyond the DNC? Along with the Democratic party officials, delegates, lobbyists and members of the media who flocked to Philadelphia this weekend came tens of thousands of activists — a number that will likely continue to grow during the four days of the party’s presidential nominating convention, officially... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 14, 2016 What Will The Democratic Party Stand for in 2016? Last week made clear that Bernie Sanders won’t be the Democratic nominee. But a meeting of the Democratic Platform Committee in Washington also made it clear that the Vermont senator will wield considerable influence over the party’s future. The primary season developed into a fight for the future... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 09, 2016 Federal Court Says North Carolina’s Racially Motivated Gerrymandering Is Unconstitutional Shortly after North Carolina Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010 , they drew up new district maps to determine the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts, carving them up to their partisan advantage. On Friday, a federal court declared that two of those... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 24, 2016 Kids Suing Government for Climate Action Attract Influential Allies and Opponents Twenty-one young Americans and climate scientist James Hansen are suing to compel the government to take dramatic action on climate change, and the case has attracted attention both from powerful lobbyists in Washington and environmental activists around the globe. The kids are backed by Our... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 14, 2015 Obama Could Help Fix Our Broken Democracy. But He Hasn’t. In the tale of the rapid influx of campaign money into our political system over the last five years, the Republican establishment often gets cast as the villain. It was, after all, Chief Justice John Roberts and his ideological allies on the court who were responsible for the 2010 Citizens United... Read more |