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In this week’s issue of TIME magazine, I take a look at the Sunrise Movement, a youth climate group that’s shot to prominence—and created controversy—in its short existence. On a broader level, it’s a piece that attempts to take stock of the past few years of activist fervor: what was it all for, and what did it accomplish?
As I write in the piece:
From the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter to March for Our Lives, many of the movements that flourished during the Trump presidency have faded in the years since. As the Resistance sputters and reality sets in, the activist left now faces a collective reckoning: Why didn’t all that people power result in policy change? Was all the marching and shouting little more than a self-reinforcing liberal echo chamber? And if that’s not the way to make change happen, what is?
One more announcement: Pelosi’s Power, a new PBS Frontline documentary, airs this coming Tuesday, 3/22. I worked on this with filmmaker Michael Kirk and producer Jim Gilmore, and I highly recommend it. If you’d like an invitation to the virtual launch event this Friday 3/25, let me know and I’ll put you on the list. For more about Speaker Pelosi, read my book!
You can always find my stories here. A few recent highlights:
I wrote about President Biden’s rough first year in office (with Brian Bennett)
I watched Succession with Sen. Sherrod Brown
I profiled Person of the Year Elon Musk (with Jeff Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza)
I explored the debate over “critical race theory” through the case of an embattled Boston-area charter school, and the controversy over “wokeness” through the fight over confederate symbols at Virginia Military Institute